44 CAFNR Researchers Contribute to Innovation

CAFNR researchers generate innovations that are further developed in commercial settings for the benefit of society each year. In calendar year 2022, 44 CAFNR researchers had patents, commercial agreements, startup companies and first product sales.

These researchers are:

  • Mathew Ashby, senior research specialist
  • Yan Barnett, senior research consultant
  • Andrew Biggs, CMREEC assistant director for crops
  • Shi-Jie Chen, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Physics and Biochemistry
  • Michael Wayne Clubb, research specialist lead
  • Mark V. Coggeshall, adjunct assistant professor
  • Melissa Crisel, senior research associate
  • Ryan DelPercio, doctoral student
  • Elizabeth De Meyer, doctoral student
  • Bishnu P. Dhital, research specialist
  • Dan England, senior research specialist
  • Stacey Hamilton, instructorXiao Heng, associate professor of biochemistry
  • Robert L. Kallenbach, associate dean
  • Kiho Lee, associate professor
  • Ryan Lock, extension specialist
  • John A. Lory, extension associate professor
  • Nicholas Meier, senior research specialist
  • Clinton Meinhardt, senior research specialist
  • James Meng, expert programmer analyst
  • Wesley Moore, senior research specialist
  • Kelly Nelson, professor
  • Alice Nguyen, research specialist
  • Henry Thien Nguyen, professor
  • Jaume Padilla, associate professor
  • Mihail Popescu, professor
  • Randall S. Prather, Curators’ Distinguished Professor
  • Xiaofan Nui, associate director of program/projects
  • Elizabeth Prenger, senior research specilaist
  • Thomas P. Quinn, professor
  • Ronald Revord, assistant research professor
  • Andrew Scaboo, assistant professor
  • James Grover Shannon, professor emeritus
  • Gubir Singh, assistant professor
  • Scotty Lee Smothers, senior research associate
  • Zhenwei Song, research scientist
  • Minviluz G. Stacey, assistant research professor
  • Marissa Triller, senior research specialist
  • Mariola Usovsky, senior research associate
  • Bongkosh Vardhanabhuti, associate professor
  • Yun Wang, doctoral student
  • Kevin D. Wells, associate professor
  • Chunye Zhang, postdoctoral fellow
  • Jianfeng Zhou, assistant  professor
  • Xiaoqin Zou, professor