UCL Eastman Dental Institute

Knowledge Transfer

Patents

UCL-EDI is one of the most entrepreneurial departments at UCL: several patents have been filed recently:

• Load-bearing hydroxyapatite (licensed)
• Use of photosensitisation (licensed)
• Phage-targeting photodynamic therapy (licensed)
• Injectable bone cements(available)
• Fluoride-releasing biomaterial (licensed)
• Photoactive mixture (option to licence)
• Photoactive conjugate (option to licence)
• Photoactive keyboard (available)
• Photoactive surface (available)

Four companies have arisen from UCL-EDI patents viz, Ondine Biopharma; Dentofex; MedMat Innovations; and Integration Diagnostics.

Industrial collaboration

UCL-EDI staff are Industry advisers for:

• Biolitec (Hopper)
• Dentofex (Wilson)
• Etiologics (Petrie)
• International Team for Implantology (ITI) (Donos)
• Ondine Biopharma (Donos, Nair, Wilson)
• Glaxo SmithKline (Petrie)
• Optiva (Wilson)