Cutting Edge
WORLDiscoveries® continues to meet or exceed its key measures of success. The entity remains committed to its initial promise of raising the overall commercial contribution of London’s research community and fully expects to continue to be a leader among peers across all key performance measures over the next 4 years.
Quick Facts for 2012 Fiscal Year
17 patents issued
$1.09 million distributed to researchers
17 license agreements
$1.09 thousand in commercialization grants
$4.7 million in revenue
82 disclosures
112 active licenses
Stories
Statement
It is hard to believe that four years have passed since these three founding institutions...
M-Safety
Sully, Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III, landed US Air Flight 1549 on the Hudson River...
Following the Sun
Kamran Siddiqui, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials...
Cambridge Brain Sciences
He also brought a business to develop – Cambridge Brain Sciences (CBS) – an internet-based...
Improving Education
Now, Western Medical Biophysics Professors and Lawson Scientists, Jerry Battista and Kevin Jordan...
Enhancing Surgery
A year ago Dr. Terry Peters was submitting grant requests and asked NeoChord Inc...
Managing complications of Diabetes
Along with the explosion in cases of diabetes in many parts of the world comes a lesser known side...
Making buildings safer
Every few months, it seems, there is news of another deadly earthquake somewhere in the world...
Self-cleaning coatings
In television ads, bathroom and kitchen cleaning products are often represented...
HIV/AIDS Vaccine
The statistics are brutal – 34 million people are living with HIV infection globally...
Regional alliance
Promising technology start-ups need many things – a great idea, access to capital...
Asia strategy
China, so vast, with such growth potential, has nonetheless challenged the research...
Our Team
Executive Director
Paul Paolatto
Executive Director
Asia Operations
Ling Ting
Director
Engineering and Natural Sciences (ENS) & Social Innovation
Patrick Therrien
Senior Business Development Manager
Jaipreet Bindra
Senior Business Development Manager
Life Sciences
Souzan Armstrong
Senior Business Development Manager
Kirk Brown
Senior Business Development Manager
Sandy Vascotto,
Senior Business Development Manager
Ahmed Yousef
Business Development Manager
Support Services
Nadine Weedmark
Manager, Intellectual Property & Admin
Jan Payne
Patent and Market Analyst
Thurman Sawyer
Agreements Advisor
Lori Lariviere
Program Coordinator
Mona Wuytenburg,
Administrative Assistant
Fabian Folias,
Electronic Media Channel Coordinator
Jonathan Deeks,
Inventions and Patents Manager
Board of Directors
John Capone, Chair
Western University
David Hill
Lawson Health Research Institute
Mike Irwin
3M
Kevin Robertson
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Dwayne Martins
Western University
Paul Paolatto
WORLDiscoveries
Janice McMichael-Dennis
Bluewater Power