WRF GIFTS & PAYMENTS
Disbursements from WRF Licensing
Cumulative license and royalty payments to client institutions: $336,706,000.
(as of June 2011)
WRF GIFTS
WRF gifts have supported the creation of over 100 endowments for chairs, professorships, research fellowships and graduate stipends in science, medicine and engineering. Educational programs created and supported by WRF include the Center for Technology Entrepreneurship (UW Business School) and the Program for Technology Commercialization (UW Bioengineering). WRF was a founding supporter of technology "gap" funding programs at the University of Washington, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Washington State University. The gifts to Washington state research institutions are targeted to projects with commercial potential.
EXAMPLES AND SUCCESS STORIES
- WRF's gift of $500,000 to UW Genome Sciences for the purchase of equipment is helping Dr. Robert Waterston and his faculty decode the genetic contributors to heart, lung and blood disorders.
- A $500,000 gift to the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) assisted with its much-needed move to larger premises in April 2011.
- A gift of $34,000 to the University of Washington’s Computer Science and Engineering department assisted MacArthur Fellow Dr. Shwetak Patel’s research and testing of the energy sensing and monitoring technology that would provide the foundation for his startup Zensi, Inc. Electronics giant Belkin International, Inc. acquired Zensi in 2010.
- A $30,000 gift to UW Computer Science Department's Oren Etzioni to develop the core technology that became the basis of the venture-backed company Farecast, in which WRF was an investor. Farecast was acquired by Microsoft in April 2008.
- WRF's $28,000 gift supporting Dr. Les Atlas' pilot research into "A Method of Hearing Enhancement" allowed Dr. Atlas to enter into interdisciplinary collaborations with UW Hearing & Speech and UW Otolaryngology. Dr. Atlas was able to leverage this pilot research to gain $500,000 in additional funding from the public and private sectors.
- A $20,000 gift to UW Department of Urology's Dr. Robert Sweet to convert his Virtual Reality Resection Trainer software to a PC platform. The software was subsequently licensed to a surgical training company by the Digital Ventures team of the UW Office of Technology Transfer (now C4C).
- $10,000 from WRF assisted Presidential Award winner Dr. Richard Ladner’s “Tactile Graphics Project” in the UW’s Computer Science and Engineering department. This program aids the translation of graphs and images into Braille.
DISBURSEMENTS BY YEAR
Total: $3,715,746
FY2010-2011
$1,070,000
UW Bioengineering Recruitment and Retention
$650,000
UW Engineering - Project Award - Hochberg
$500,000
ISB Relocation Support
$500,000
UW Medical School - Project Award - Genomic Decoding Equipment
$303,942
UW C4C Technology Gap Initiative Fund
$200,000
UW Biology Benjamin Hall Endowment
$52,500
ARCS Foundation Fellowships
$50,000
UW Arts & Sciences - Project Award - Gamelin
$50,000
UW Engineering - Project Award - Patel
$50,000
UW Engineering - Project Award -
Browd & Lutz
$50,000
UW Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Fellowships
$50,000
UW Medical School - Project Award - Shendure
$43,460
UW Engineering - Project
Award - Seibel
$33,000
WSU - Project
Award - Alderete
$28,994
UW Arts & Sciences - Project Award - Fagan
$25,000
UW Biology Friday Harbor Labs Endowment
$15,050
UW Information School - Project Award - Friedman
$10,000
UW CIE Business Plan Competition Support
$10,000
ARCS Foundation Annual Meeting Support
$5,000
UW Information School iConference Sponsorship
$5,000
UW Engineering ITHS Industry Day Sponsorship
$5,000
ISB Symposium Support
$5,000
UW CIE Environmental Challenge Competition Support
$3,800
Miscellaneous Gifts and Sponsorships
Total: $1,544,001
FY2009-2010
$500,000
UW Genome Sciences Capital Equipment
$250,000
UW Engineering Hochberg
$200,000
UW Biology Benjamin Hall Endowment
$126,587
UW C4C Technology Gap Initiative Fund
$70,000
ARCS Fellowships
$50,000
UW Radiology - Project Award - Wilcox
$50,000
UW Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Fellowships
$50,000
ARCS Fellowship Endowment
$50,000
UW Engineering - Project Award -
Schowenger
$49,525
UW Engineering - Project Award - Helton
$42,000
WSU Research Foundation - Project Award - Tang
$40,000
UW Bioengineering - Project
Award - Thomas
$10,964
UW Medical School - Project
Award - Kim
$10,000
UW Friday Harbor Labs Teaching Gift
$10,000
UW Bioengineering NAE Grand Challenges Sponsorship
$5,000
UW CIE Business Plan Competition
$5,000
UW Medical School/Harborview
$5,000
WBBA Medical Device Angel Network Sponsorship
$5,000
UW Arts & Sciences Music Department
$5,000
UW Medical School Inventor of the Year Sponsorship
$5,000
UW Biology - Project Award - Stayton
$3,925
Miscellaneous Gifts and Sponsorships
Total: $1,988,733
FY2008-2009
$500,000
UW Medical School Genes Sequencing Equipment
$400,000
UW Computer Science & Engineering,Entrepreneurship Endowment
$200,000
Ben Hall Endowment
$247,015
UW Office of Tech Transfer -
Technology Gap Initiative Fund
$87,500
UW ARCS Fellowships
$50,000
UW Engineering - Project Award -
Parviz
$50,000
UW Arts and Sciences -
Undergraduate Research Fellowships
$50,000
UW Materials Sciences - Project
Award - Jen
$50,000
UW Endowed Felloship
$41,000
UW Engineering - Project
Award - Jandhyala
$35,000
UW Materials Sciences - Project
Award Guozhong
$35,000
UW Engineering - Project
Award - Patel
$33,000
WSURF - Project
Award - Lange
$30,000
UW Medical School - Project
Award - Zanghellini
$30,000
UW - Project Award - Hellstrom/Lei
$25,500
Benaroya Research Institute - Project Award - Wight
$25,000
UW Endowed Fellowship
$23,668
UW Applied Physics Lab - Project
Award - Mourad
$20,000
UW Applied Physics Lab -
Fellowship in Innovative Measurement Technologies
$20,000
UW Medical School Sponsorship
$10,000
Fred Hutchinson CRC Technology Business Plan Consultant
$10,000
UW - Medical School Jump Start Program for Graduate Students
$9,750
UW - OTT Entrepreneur in Residence Program
$5,000
UW - CIE Business Plan Competition
$2,800
Miscellaneous Gifts and
Sponsorships
Total: $944,541
FY2007-2008
$231,461
UW Technology Gap Initiative Fund - Office of Technology Transfer
$200,000
UW Bioengineering Recruitment and Retention
$110,000
UW ARCS Foundation Fellowships
$90,000
UW Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Fellowships
$71,000
UW Friday Harbor Labs Undergraduate Research Fellowships
$50,000
UW Medicine - Project Award - Clark
$50,000
UW Computer Science - Project Award - Etzioni
$40,280
UW Engineering - Project Award - Lin
$40,000
FHCRC -Project Award II - Hockenberry
$35,000
UW Engineering Dynatup 9250 HV instrumented impact test systems
$30,000
FRCRC - Project Award - Bedalov
$14,800
Miscellaneous Awards and Event Sponsorships
Total: $1,589,163
FY2006-2007
$200,000
UW Computer Science & Engineering Recruitment and Retention
$200,000
UW Materials Science Recruitment and
Retention
$200,000
UW Biochemistry Recruitment and
Retention
$200,000
UW Biochemistry Recruitment and
Retention
$142,000
UW Biology Friday Harbor Labs
$115,827
UW Technology Gap Initiative Fund -
Office of Technology Transfer
$99,397
UW Technology Gap Initiative Fund -
Office of Technology Transfer
$95,000
UW ARCS Foundation Fellowships
$50,000
Washington State University Research Foundation
Technology Gap Fund
$50,000
UW Bioengineering - Yager - Salivary Diagnostics
$39,750
UW Electrical Engineering - Parviz - Self-Assembly
$35,000
UW Bioengineering - Daggett-Dynameomics
$29,500
UW Cardiology - Linker - AF Loop Recorder
$28,500
UW Bioengineering - Kim - Prostate Brachytherapy
$20,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute Ferre-Damare: Riboswitch Antibody
$20,000
UW Information School -Wobbrock - Edgewrite
$15,593
UW Business School Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Hu - ISD4
$10,000
UW Biology - Ben Hall Symposium
$9,094
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute - Hockenbery - Apoptosis
$5,000
UW Bioengineering - Kim
$24,500
Additional Awards and Sponsorships
Total: $970,467
FY2005-2006
$200,000
UW College of Arts and Sciences
Recruitment and Retention
$200,000
UW College of Arts and Sciences
Recruitment and Retention
$142,000
UW College of Arts and Sciences -
Friday Harbor Labs
$113,293
UW Technology Gap Initiative Fund -
Office of Technology Transfer
$85,000
UW ARCS Foundation Fellowships
$50,000
Washington State University Research Foundation
Technology Gap Fund
$29,650
UW Dept. of Bioengineering - Gao - cell
washing technology
$28,500
UW Dept. of Bioengineering - Xinde Li
- multimodal endoscope
$25,000
UW Dept. of Bioengineering -
Kim - Coronary Artery disease screen
$21,924
UW Dept. of Chemistry - Kaminsky -
Millipol project
$20,000
UW Dept. of Biology - Laird - Molecular
encoding of nucleic acids
$20,000
UW Dept. of Bioengineering - Pollack
research
$10,000
UW. Dept of Computer Science and
Engineering - Ladner - Tactile Graphics (Braille graphics)
$10,000
UW. Dept of Computer Science and
Engineering - Yinhai Wang - LoopSim, traffic management software
$10,000
UW Business School - Seattle
Innovation Conference
$5,000
UW Business School - CTE Business Plan
Competition
Total: $3,279,992
FY2004-2005
$250,000
UW Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Endowed Chair
$250,000
UW Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Endowed Scholarship
$250,000
UW Dept. of Medicine Endowed
Professorship
$250,000
UW Dept. of Engineering Endowed
Professorship
$250,000
UW Dept. of Biology Endowed Chair
$250,000
UW Dept. of Biology Endowed Fellowship
$250,000
UW Medicine Autism Center Fellowship
$200,000
UW Dept. of Arts and Sciences Recruitment and Retention
$187,000
UW Dept. of Paleobotany Endowed Professorship
$125,000
UW Dept. of Medicine Pediatrics sabbatical
$125,000
UW Dept. of Biology Endowed Chair
$100,000
UW Dept. of Medicine Diabetes professorship
$87,500
UW School of Oceans and Fisheries Endowed Fellowship
$83,334
UW Computer Science & Engineering Career Development Professorship
$82,656
UW Technology Gap Initiative Fund
$80,000
UW ARCS Fellowships
$62,500
UW Dept. of Dentistry Endowed Professorship
$62,500
UW Dept. of Pharmacy Phamacogenomics Research Professorship
$52,823
UW Arts & Sciences Endowed Biostatistics Professorship
$50,550
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute Technology Development Fund
$43,500
UW Medicine Multiple Sclerosis Professorship
$31,250
UW Medicine Virology Professorship
$25,129
UW Computer Science & Engineering Scholarship Fund
$25,000
UW Arts & Sciences Endowed Physics Fellowship
$25,000
UW School of Public Health Endowed Fellowship
$25,000
UW Dept. of Medicine Pharmacy Compounding Endowment
$25,000
UW Computer Science & Engineering Endowed Chair
$20,000
UW Medical School Surgery Simulator Development
$6,250
UW Dept. of Chemistry Endowed Professorship
$5,000
UW Medical School Industry Relations Inventor of the Year Award
Total: $2,004,320
FY2003-2004
$500,000
UW Engineering Bioengineering Simpson chair endowment match
$250,000
UW Dept. of Bioengineering Building Campaign
$250,000
UW Dept. of Computer Sciences CSE Building Campaign
$142,000
UW Arts & Sciences Biology Friday Harbor Labs
$132,762
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute Technology Development Fund
$100,000
UW Engineering Computer Science & Engineering Recruitment Dr. Landay
$75,000
UW Engineering Computer Science & Engineering
$75,000
UW Quaternary Research Center Endowment
$70,000
UW ARCS Fellowships
$62,500
UW Dept. of Chemistry Endowed Professorship
$50,000
UW Engineering Administration
$50,000
UW Dept. of Biology Endowed professorship
$40,000
UW Engineering Bioengineering CEI
$30,000
UW Forest Resources Paper Science &
Endowed professorship
$30,000
UW Office of Technology Transfer
$28,058
UW Engineering Bio-engineering Les Atlas:
Hearing project
$25,000
UW Engineering Computer Science & Engineering Emerging leaders scholarship endowment
$20,000
UW Arts & Sciences Undergraduate research fellowships
$20,000
UW Medical School Dentistry Geurtsen oral
mucositis project
$15,000
Fred Hutchinson CRC Administration Gala challenge for research fund
$15,000
UW Medical School Visual Prosthesis Project
$11,000
UW Engineering Computer Science & Engineering
$5,000
UW Arts & Sciences Science Forum
sponsorship
$8,000
Additional awards and sponsorships
Total: $945,500
FY2002-2003
$250,000
UW Dept. of Computer Sciences CSE Building Campaign
$250,000
UW Dept. of Bioengineering Building Campaign
$142,000
UW Friday Harbor Labs research
$115,000
UW Cell Systems Initiative
$50,000
UW Medicine Cardiac imaging training
$45,000
ARCS Foundation
$30,000
UW Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
$10,000
UW Dept. of Bioengineering
$10,000
UW Medicine Fetal Alcohol Syndrome software development project
$10,000
UW Dept. of Communication Election Day project
$10,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
$10,000
Miscellaneous gifts and sponsorships
Total: $965,500
FY2001-2002
$250,000
UW Dept. of Computer Sciences CSE Building Campaign ($500,000 paid total toward $1,000,000 pledge)
$250,000
UW Dept. of Bioengineering Building Campaign ($500,000 paid total toward $1,000,000 pledge)
$142,000
UW Friday Harbor Labs research
$100,000
Whiteley Foundation: Friday Harbor Labs building campaign
$70,000
UW Center for Technology Entrepreneurship (CTE)
$35,000
UW - CTE Business Plan Competition
$35,000
ARCS Foundation Fellowships ($75,000 remaining pledge)
$25,000
UW Arts & Sciences Celebration Series lectures
$20,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center NW Partners
$15,000
UW Bioengineering Celebration Series lectures
$23,500
Miscellaneous gifts and sponsorships
Total: $2,002,520
FY2000-2001
$500,000
University of Washington (UW) Dept. of Bioengineering Endowed Professorship
$250,000
UW Dept. of Bioengineering Building Campaign
$250,000
UW Medical School, Cell Systems Initiative
$250,000
UW Dept. of Computer Sciences CSE Building Campaign
$250,000
UW Business School Fund for Entrepreneurship
$200,000
UW Dept. of Electrical Engineering in support of a "Biomechanical database for surgery and surgical
simulation"
$150,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Technology Development Fund Research Center
$50,000
UW - ISchool Director's Discretionary Fund
$35,000
ARCS Foundation
$35,000
UW - PEI Business Plan Competition Awards
$10,000
Fred Hutchinson Research Center E. Donnall Thomas Medal of Achievement
$10,000
UW Electrical Engineering Annual Research Review (premier issue)
$10,000
UW Electrical Engineering Research of Les Atlas
$1,000
UW Information Industry Associates Program
$1,000
UW Dept. of Electrical Engineering WRF Capital Outstanding RA Award
$520
Virginia Mason Research Center
Total: $1,438,590
FY1999-2000
$500,000
UW - Thomas J. Cable/WRF Professorship in Computer Science and Engineering
$350,000
UW - W. Hunter Simpson/WRF Professorship in support of the
Center for Law, Commerce and Technology
$210,090
UW Office of Technology Licensing - Prototype Development
$275,000
ARCS Foundation
$50,000
UW Program for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (PEI)
$40,000
UW Office of Research Program Support
$5,000
UW Northwest Science and Technology Fund<
$5,000
UW Dept. of Electrical Engineering
$2,000
UW PEI Summer Intern
$1,000
Virginia Mason Research Center
$500
UW Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Total: $576,355
FY1998-1999
$250,000
UW PEI Program - William H. Gates, II Research Fund for Advanced Technology Commercialization Teams.
$150,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Technology Development Fund
$105,855
UW Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
$50,000
ARCS Foundation
$10,000
UW Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
$10,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
$500
UW Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Total: $60,000
FY1997-1998
$30,000
Arcs Foundation
$10,000
UW PEI Program
$10,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
$10,000
UW Northwest Science and Technology Fund
Total: $660,000
FY1996-1997
$500,000
UW - WRF Endowed Chair in Basic Biological Science
$150,000
UW Prototype Development Fund
$10,000
UW Neurological Surgery
Total: $750,000
FY1995-1996
$500,000
UW - WRF Endowed Chair in Basic Biological Science
$150,000
UW Prototype Development Fund
$50,000
UW Dept. of Bioengineering (restricted fund)
$35,000
UW Dept. of Botany
$15,000
ARCS Foundation
Total: $2,000,000
Prior to 1995
$1,000,000
UW - WRF Endowed Chair in Basic Biological Science
$1,000,000
UW-Hall-Ammerer-WRF Endowed Fellowship Fund in Interdisciplinary Research
