The 4th Annual Intellectual Property Appreciation Luncheon, hosted by the Office of Technology Transfer & Commercialization, was held recently at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.

Each year, the Office of Technology Transfer & Commercialization, recognizes its UNTHSC and community partners, and UNTHSC faculty who have played an important role in intellectual property and commercialization efforts.

Additionally, those inventors who have had patents issue during the previous fiscal year were recognized. This year's recipients include Abbott Clark, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Visual Sciences Program, Cell Biology and Genetics and Robert Wordinger, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Cell Biology and Genetics (shown below with UNTHSC President, Dr. Scott Ransom);and Laszlo Prokai, Ph.D., Robert A. Welch Professor, Molecular Biology and Immunology; Katalin Prokai-Tatrai, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Pharmacology &Neuroscience; and James Simpkins, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Pharmacology & Neuroscience.

Special guests in attendance this year were UNTHSC President, Scott Ransom DO, MBA, MPH, UNTHSC Provost Thomas Yorio, Ph.D., UNTHSC Vice President for Research, Glenn Dillon, Ph.D., University of North Texas Director of Discovery Park and Technology Transfer, Harold Strong, Dr. Robert Magnusson, Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics, a $5 million endowed chair for The University of Texas at Arlington and tenants of the newly opened Tech Fort Worth Acceleration Lab at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, located in the Center for BioHealth Building,