MSE Faculty Receive Funds for Early-Stage Inventions

Douglas A. Loy, University of Arizona professor of materials science and engineering and chemistry and biochemistry, has received one of seven 2017 Asset Development awards from Tech Launch Arizona. 

The funds will aid him in developing a nontoxic, long-lasting sunscreen based on bridged polysilsesquioxanes nanoparticles. He previously received TLA support to create and market biologically based sun protection. 

Marek Romanowski, a UA biomedical engineering professor with a joint appointment in MSE, was also awarded asset development funding, to develop a solid-state camera system for monitoring cranial nerve pathways in anesthetized patients.

Photo courtesy of Paul Tumarkin/Tech Launch Arizona