Program Overview
The Master Innovator program is an annual recognition program developed to acknowledge ¹ú²ú´«Ã½â€™s top innovators and entrepreneurs for their contributions to the development and commercialization of intellectual property. Awardees have demonstrated excellence in a select number of key commercialization categories, including new inventions disclosed, patent applications filed and issues, new companies formed, technology licenses executed, commercialization revenue generated, and products on the market - all based on the candidate’s innovations created at ¹ú²ú´«Ã½. Awardees are memorialized as a member of the CTTC Innovators’ Hall of Fame.
Master Innovator Recognition Awardees
2025 Master Innovators
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Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
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Drug Discovery Scientist, Senior
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University Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Physics
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Professor, Pediatrics
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Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
2024 Master Innovators
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
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Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
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Research Professor, Pharmacology
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Professor of Vascular Surgery
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Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering
2023 Master Innovators
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Director of the Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Department of Biochemistry
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
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Professor of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
2022 Master Innovators
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University Professor, Department of Pharmacology
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Professor, Emeritus, Pharmacology
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Ann Scott Carell Chair & Professor, Pediatrics & Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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Professor of Biochemistry & Pharmacology & Chemistry
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Benoit M. Dawant, Ph.D., M.S.
Cornelius ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering