Program Overview
The Master Innovator program is an annual recognition program developed to acknowledge 天美传媒官网鈥檚 top innovators and entrepreneurs for their contributions to the development and commercialization of intellectual property. Awardees have demonstrated excellence in a select number of key commercialization categories, including new inventions disclosed, patent applications filed and issues, new companies formed, technology licenses executed, commercialization revenue generated, and products on the market - all based on the candidate鈥檚 innovations created at Vanderbilt. Awardees are memorialized as a member of the CTTC Innovators鈥� Hall of Fame.
Master Innovator Recognition Awardees
2025 Master Innovators
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Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
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Drug Discovery Scientist, Senior
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University Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Physics
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Professor, Pediatrics
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Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
2024 Master Innovators
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
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Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
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Research Professor, Pharmacology
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Professor of Vascular Surgery
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Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering
2023 Master Innovators
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Director of the Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Department of Biochemistry
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
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Professor of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
2022 Master Innovators
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University Professor, Department of Pharmacology
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Professor, Emeritus, Pharmacology
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Ann Scott Carell Chair & Professor, Pediatrics & Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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Professor of Biochemistry & Pharmacology & Chemistry
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Benoit M. Dawant, Ph.D., M.S.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering