Blackboard2010-2011 GAP Competition Winners Announced
Since 2005, the FSU Research Foundation has been funding a highly competitive grant program designed to support Florida State University researchers as they seek to transfer their technology out of the laboratory and into the commercial marketplace - it is called the GAP program.
The winners of these GAP awards are researchers who most clearly can identify the commercial viability of a product, process or license that will come from their efforts with a corporate partner.
Of the four projects receiving GAP funding for the FY 2010-2011 competition, two of them were from Engineering:
Improved Photovoltaic Cell for Solar Energy Harvesting $15,000 is awarded to Professor Simon Foo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, to fabricate and compare improved multi-junction solar cells against state of the art designs with the goal to demonstrate higher efficiencies than existing multi-junction solar cells.
Improved Method for Diagnosing Breast Cancer $45,000 is awarded to Professor Jingjao Guan, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, to develop and test a new method for increasing the image field that is used to diagnose breast cancer.
Once researchers or a research group receive a GAP award, they are assigned a team of local business leaders who act as mentors. This group then meets on a quarterly basis to provide insight and assistance to the GAP winners in the area of product development.
For more information about the GAP Program at The Florida State University, visit: http://www.techtransfer.fsu.edu/
For more information about the four 2010-2011 GAP awardees: http://www.research.fsu.edu/foundation/gap/fy2011awards.html
