Southeast Region – Federal Laboratory Consortium Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards for 2001 (January 2002)

The Southeast Region Federal Laboratory Consortium (SE-FLC) has announced the 2001 award winners for Excellence in Technology Transfer. The Southeast Region consists of 40 Federal Laboratories located in the following 9 states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Three nominations from ORNL were chosen for this year's Excellence in Technology Transfer category. For ORNL, this is most significant when it was announced that only five awards will be presented, and of those five awards ORNL is the only laboratory in the region with multiple winners. “Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards” recognize outstanding efforts and results in commercializing laboratory generated technologies. Two awards from the Life Sciences Division were recognized. Ying Xu and Dong Xu, members of the Protein Informatics Group, were recognized for “PROSPECT (Protein Structure Prediction and Evaluation Computer Toolkit)” (also recently winner of a 2001 R&D 100 Award). Mitch Doktycz, senior staff member in the Functional Genomics Group, was recognized for “Hybrid Valve Technology for Liquid Handling and Dual-Manifold System for Arraying Biomolecules.” The awards were presented at the SE-FLC regional meeting at the Sheraton World hotel in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, January 15, 2002.