Office for Innovation

Innovations from Eberly College of Science

The Eberly College of Science, along with Penn State University, strongly supports the translation of scientific discoveries from the lab to the marketplace to address real-world problems and make a greater impact. Our researchers are developing innovations across the life, mathematical, and physical sciences. Many of these efforts have been supported by the Office for Innovation, the Technology Advisory Board, and funding jointly provided by the college and the Penn State Research Foundation.

Featured Innovations

Sally Mackenzie laboratory for the intellectual property website.

Dr. Ganesh Anand

Targeting Virus Breathing Hotspots for Antibody Discovery.

Antiviral Therapy

Ganesh Anand for the Office for Innovation featured innovations page.

Dr. Joseph Cotruvo

New, environmentally friendly method to extract and separate rare earth elements.

Rare earth elements

Joseph Cotruvo for the Office for Innovation featured innovations website.

Caleb Meredith and Dr. Lauren Zarzar

Startup Chromatir Develops Color-Shifting Coatings.

Chromatir

Dr. Brad Rogers and Dr. Paul Cremer

Startup GradienT^° utilizes temperature gradients to assess protein phase behavior, which enables high-throughput testing and accurate predictions of colloidal stability for therapeutic protein formulations.

GradienT°

Dr. Eric Kennehan and Dr. John Ashbury

Startup Magnitude Instruments creating benchtop transient absorption (TA) spectrometers that push the limits of nano-to-millisecond spectroscopy.

Magnitude Instruments

2022 Lab Bench to Commercialization Recipients

Dr. Sally Mackenzie: Increasing crop plants’ yield by altering their epigenetics
Dr. Joyce Jose: Screening antiviral drug candidates

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Lab Bench to Commercialization 2022 recipients.

Capturing our Impact

ECOS Researchers, report your impact!

Translational research can result in many kinds of impact, from student career readiness, to new sources of translational funding, to adoption of technologies.

Eberly researchers can report their translational successes to the Office for Innovation through this fillable form.