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Past and Current     KSEF R&D Excellence Award Recipients

Round  (#Awards) Date
RDE-012 (14) 07-1-09
RDE-011 (17) 07-1-08
RDE-010 (31) 10-24-07
RDE-009 (16) 12-12-06
RDE-008 (31) 10-25-05
RDE-007 (20) 4-12-05
RDE-006 (11) 8-4-04
RDE-005 (31) 5-20-04
RDE-004 (9)  10-10-03
RDE-003 (32)    5-5-03
RDE-002 (11) 12-12-02
RDE-001 (32)    2-1-02


Kentucky Comm Fund

Round  (#Awards) Date
COMM-010  (2)  12-11-09
 COMM-009  (2)  10-1-09
 COMM-008  (4)   1-1-09
 COMM-007  (8)   4-1-08
 COMM-006  (10) 4-1-07

Past and Current  SBIR/STTR Phase Zero and Double Zero Award Recipients
 158 awards totaling $527,070 have been awarded to date.
 

MAHENDRA K. JAIN, PhD
Executive Director and Vice President

Upon joining KSTC in February 2001, Mahendra brought 30 years of teaching, research and management experience to the creation and management of KSEF and making R&D investments in novel ideas for innovation and commercialization. He is helping to forge partnerships between academic, industrial and state institutions in building and expanding Kentucky's scientific and engineering capacity to attract external research funds from all sources. In addition, Mahendra has proactively pursued the growth of the Federal SBIR and STTR Programs in the state through outreach and state-funded assistance programs. He currently provides direction to the Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, Kentucky Commercialization Fund and the CED/DCI Kentucky SBIR/STTR Matching Funds Program.

Before joining KSTC, Mahendra worked at several universities in the U.S., Europe and India and at MBI International, a biotechnology R&D organization in Lansing, Michigan. He has been a consultant to United Nations Development Program, Food and Agriculture Organization and the Organization of American States. For his outstanding contributions in microbiology, Mahendra received the 1997 G.B. Manjrekar award from the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) and an American Society for Microbiology International Professor Award in 2006.  He also received a National Tibbetts Award in 2006 for exemplifying the federal SBIR-STTR Programs at both the state and the national level.  Mahendra is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM Fellow), a fellow of AMI (FAMI), and a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC). Dr. Jain received and managed research grants and contracts in several million dollars from federal, state and industrial sources. He received his Ph.D. in microbiology in 1972 from I.A.R.I., New Delhi and is the author of 10 United States patents, one Canadian patent and over 120 research papers, articles and book chapters.

email: mjain@kstc.com
office: 859.246.3230
cell: 859.576.3283

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