The Innovation Center’s Innovation Grants program bridges the funding gap between research and commercialization. Specifically, it enables UTAustin professors to assess and advance the commercializability of their successful research. (http://www.engr.utexas.edu/innovation)

Professor Ben-Yakar will use the $31,000 Innovation Grant to improve the fabrication of the drug discovery platform and to establish partnerships and collaborations with key alliances at R&D centers, institutes and universities.