Board of the USTAR Governing Authority

Board of the USTAR Governing Authority

Location: 324 So State Suite 501

Thursday, February 3, 2011

4:00p.m. – 6:00p.m.

(Note the Research Team Review Subcmte will meet from 2:30-4:00PM)

Summary February 3, 2011 USTAR Governing Authority Board Minutes

Attendance:

Dinesh Patel, Chair; Spencer Eccles Co-Chair, Cynthia Burrows, Scott Anderson, Charlie Precourt, Hunter Jackson, Richard Elliss, Jim Dreyfous, Ted McAleer, USTAR Ex. Dir.

Excused Absence: Rich Linder, Dan Olsen

Guests: USTAR: Steve Roy, Ronda Robbins Jones, Randa Bezzant, Ryan Angus, Curt Roberts, Jill Elliss; University of Utah: Tom Parks and Patty Ross UofU; Utah State University: Rob Behunin, LJ Bolton; USTAR Advisory Council: Jeff Edwards; Wesley Smith, SL Chamber of Commerce, Josh Ewing and Angie Welling Love Communications.

AGENDA

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Welcome and Approval of Jan - 2011 Minutes …………Dinesh Patel

Research Team Review SubCmte Update Dinesh Patel

University of Utah’s nanoBioSensors Team

Management Updates:

TCG Update: Ted McAleer

TOIP TCG Recommendation TOIP Directors

UofU VP of Research TCG Progress Report Tom Parks

Budget Update: Ted McAleer

Legislative Session update Ted

Tracking Commercialization progress Ted

TOIP Update: Ted

VIN Update Ted McAleer

MarCom Update Michael O’Malley

Other Business Dinesh Patel

Adjourn Dinesh Patel

Minutes

1.  Dinesh Patel called the meeting to order at 4:00pm. Reviewed January minutes. January minutes approved by a unanimous vote of those present.

2.  Dinesh Patel provided a synopsis of the Marc Porter research team presentation on NanoBioSensors (NBS) that was reviewed by the SubCmte prior to the formal GA Mtg.

3.  Ted began the management update with oral presentations by TOIP Directors on their TCG recommendations. The Dec 31, 2010 TOIP TCG application process received 46 applications. The TOIP Directors screened and scored all of the applications and based on the scoring, decided to meet with 17 of the project leaders. After the meeting with the 17 project leaders, the TOIP Directors decided to recommended 11 projects for funding. These recommendations are summarized in the following Table:

TCG / College/University / Technology Name / Industry Co-applicant / Amt. Requested / Amt. Awarded / Project Manager
1 / UVU / Protein-Based Identification Technology / PBIT / $35000.00 / $35000.00 / Steve Roy
3 / Dixie State College / SmackDab Laser Layout System / SmackDab Technologies / $30000.00 / $30000..00 / Jill Elliss
5 / Weber State University / Lighter-than-air UAV for Persistent Survelliance / N/A / $35000.00 / $35000.00 / Steve Roy
6 / Weber State / Hotspot for Wireless Energy Mgmt System / Ad Hoc Electronics / $35000.00 / $35000.00 / Steve Roy
13 / Weber State / Wireless Avation Headset / Aloft Technologies / $35000.00 / $35000.00 / Steve Roy
17 / UVU / Neptun Dental Water Drill / H20 Tech, Inc / $35000.00 / $35000.00 / Steve Roy
18 / Snow College / Affordable Small Kit Homes / Timberhawk Kit Homes / $30000.00 / $30000.00 / Jill Elliss
20 / WSU / Bio-remediation w/metal sequestering yeast / US BioRemediation, Inc. / $35000.00 / $35000.00 / Al Walker
23 / SLCC / ColdFire, / ColdFire LLC / $25000.00 / $25000.00 / Steve Roy
24 / SUU / Walk-N-Roll Walker / Walk-N-Roll LLC / $29827.00 / $29827.00 / Jill Elliss
29 / SLCC / High-throughput Cloing Tech. / Knudra / $33600.00 / $33600.00 / Steve Roy
$358427.00

Motion made to fund all grants presented and approved by a unanimous vote of those present.

The 2d management update agenda item, also related to TCGs, was an update by the University of Utah’s Tom Parks on eight of the projects that are being managed by his team in the Office of the VP of Research Tom reported on the progress being made by each of the PIs and in some cases the industry co-applicants. The detail of the reports was disseminated in the GA’s packet and can be found in the USTAR CRM.

Following Tom’s presentation, the GA reviewed the USTAR budget reports and had a short discussion on the budget process being played out in the Legislature.

The GA was running short on time so Ted provided a short update on the USTAR building located at the U of U. It will reach “substantially complete” in Dec. 2011 and the ribbon cutting will be held April 2012.

Motion was made to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried by a unanimous vote of those present.

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