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Our track record
- #1 uni in Australia for number of active licences, options and assignments.
- #2 uni in Australia for number of active start-ups and spinouts.
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Bring our innovations to market
We have a large portfolio of inventions available for licensing, commercialisation and investment.
Licensing our intellectual property
Our portfolio of inventions and innovations spans a number of sectors, including diagnostics, therapeutics, biomedical devices and optical technology, just to name a few.
We offer flexible licensing agreements, to streamline the process for our partner organisations.
If you’d like to find out more about the intellectual property we have available for licencing, or our range of licensing/technology transfer options, contact us on +61 2 9351 4000 or via our enquiry form.
Licensing Opportunities
Life sciences
Treating diabetic ulcer and other chronic wounds using an existing class of pharmaceuticals. Chronic wound healing using β3AR agonists (pdf, 142.6KB)
Inventors: Gemma Alexandra Figtree, Kristen Bubb, Belinda Di Bartolo
Contact: taylor.syme@sydney.edu.au
During chemotherapy this sensor monitors platinum complex levels for a more effective adjustment of dosages, and patient treatment plans with few side-effects. Fluorescent sensor for detection of multiple anticancer complexes (pdf, 135KB)
Inventors: Elizabeth New, Linda Mitchell, and Clara Shen.
Contact: julius.juarez@sydney.edu.au
An entirely new class of antiviral treatment for sufferers of Hepatitis B and D that would cure them of their infection. Gene targeting for the treatment of HBV and HDV (pdf, 363.9KB)
Inventors: Jacob George, Mark Douglas, Anis Khan and Mohammed Eslam
Contact: julius.juarez@sydney.edu.au
A rapid and specific means of early diagnostics for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, and acute neurological injuries, such as stroke. Neurological injury & neurodegenerative disease diagnostic (pdf, 82.4KB)
Inventor: Zac Chatterton
Contact: taylor.syme@sydney.edu.au
A vascular bioreactor that presents a more accurate simulation of biological conditions critical for research and development in cardiovascular regenerative medicine. Pulsatile pump for decoupled pressure & flow (pdf, 55KB)
Inventors: Timothy Mitchell, Steven Wise, Miguel Santos
Contact: emma.louise-hunsley@sydney.edu.au
A targeted TNBC (Triple Negative Breast Cancer) therapy with increased selectivity and efficacy and decreased toxicity. Receptor targeted delivery for antineoplastic agents to breast cancer cells (pdf, 152KB)
Inventors: Pegah Varamini and Sepideh Khazeni
Contact: julius.juarez@sydney.edu.au
A non-invasive device that measures multiple medical signs continuously which can be applied to blood pressure monitors, pulse oximeters, activity & fitness trackers, sleep oxygen monitors, heartrate monitors. Self-training continuous blood pressure monitor (pdf, 112.7KB)
Inventors: Simon Poon and Anusha Withana
Contact: julius.juarez@sydney.edu.au
Physical sciences
Fibre sensors made of this low YM material will improve existing uses of OFS technology and open new opportunities in smart textiles, wearables, implantable therapeutic devices health care and soft robotics. Stretchable optical fibre (pdf, 156.4KB)
Inventors: Prof Simon Fleming, Dr Richard Lwin, Dr Alessio Stefani, and Dr Md Rejvi Kaysir
Contact: jeremy.cohen@sydney.edu.au
A significant advance in recycling with opportunities in areas including recycled composites for automotive, aerospace, sporting equipment, mining and defence parts, construction materials, 3D printing filaments, and consumer products. Closed-loop recycling of fibre-reinforced plastic composites (pdf, 167.9KB)
Inventor: Dr Ali Hadigheh
Contact: commercialisation@sydney.edu.au
A technology that adds low cost and simple architecture to the existing advantages of photonics-based radar. Low-frequency photonics-based broadband radar imaging and sensing (36KB)
Inventors: Dr Yang Liu, Mr Ziqian Zhang, Professor Benjamin Eggleton.
Contact: jeremy.cohen@sydney.edu.au
Customising the shells, the nanoparticles’ magnetic properties can be tailored to suit specific applications biomedicine, electronics, and sustainable and renewable energy. Multi-shell magnetic nanoparticles (pdf, 190KB)
Inventors: Prof. Hala Zreiqat AM & Dr Gurvinder Singh
Contact: commercialisation@sydney.edu.au
A compact wearable ECG monitoring device employing AI-based deep learning algorithms for accurate, real-time diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmia. Wearable ECG monitoring system (pdf, 70.6KB)
Inventors: Prof. Branka Vucetic, A/Prof. Zihuai Lin, and Xucun Yan
Contact: commercialisation@sydney.edu.au
An improved protein coating process that enables covalent attachment of any protein to a glass surface without using chemical linkers or any additional reagents which could drive a growth in the global medica coatings market. Transparent plasma-activated coated glass substrates (pdf, 139.6KB)
Inventors: Prof. Marcela Bilek, Dr. Clara Thao Hoang Tran, Dr. Stuart Tallis Fraser, Dr. Badwi Bob Boumelhem, and Dr. Aaron Gilmour
Contact: commercialisation@sydney.edu.au
An on-chip real-time versatile sensing system that can be applied to many in-situ and off-line measurement scenarios including electric vehicle battery monitoring, blood tests and nanoparticles sensing. Microwave photonic multiparameter sensing (pdf, 104.1KB)
Inventors: Prof. Xiaoke Yi, Dr Xiaoyi Tian
Contact: commercialisation@sydney.edu.au
A revolutionary technology to help those grappling with complex communication needs. Wearable augmentative and alternative communication (wAAC) (pdf, 76.2KB)
Inventors: Prof. Alistair McEwan, Prof. Petra Karlsson, Haifeng Zha
Contact: commercialisation@sydney.edu.au
Other
A framework designed to support emergency nurses in assessing and managing emergency department patients after triage. HIRAID training materials (149.9KB)
Inventors: Belinda Kennedy, Julie Considine, Kate Curtis, John Mackenzie, Margaret Murphy, Sarah Kourouche, Margaret Fry, Ramon Shaban
Contact: taylor.syme@sydney.edu.au
A custom-designed web-based platform for automating the administration of the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme-Tertiary Tuition (ITAS-TT) ITAS platform (pdf, 104.3KB)
Creators: Designed at the University of Sydney by the Office of the DVC (Indigenous Strategy and Services) and developed by TechLab in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Contact: taylor.syme@sydney.edu.au
Success stories
We're affiliated with a number of startups and new venture projects that have spun out from our technologies.
Elastagen Pty Ltd is a clinical-stage medical device company that is pioneering Elastatherapy, which uses the human protein elastin to naturally repair and augment the skin.
The company has arisen out of patented research conducted by Professor Tony Weiss’s group and the first clinical trials have demonstrated the biocompatibility and safety of their synthetic human elastin in human subjects.
Elastagen was aquired by leading global biopharmaceutical company, Allergan, in 2018.
Kinoxis Therapeutics Pty Ltd was spun out of the University of Sydney in 2018 and has since raised more than $10M to develop its novel anti-addiction drugs for use in the treatment of substance use disorders and other central nervous system disorders.
The spin off follows years of research led by Professor Iain McGregor, which was the first to show oxytocin administration to laboratory animals causes long-term increases in sociability and a lasting decrease in alcohol and methamphetamine self-administration.