Technology offers

The University is implementing a strategy aiming to protect and manage its intellectual property and transfer its research results to society. ULB-TTO takes care of filing patents and trademarks, as well as protecting know-how and software.

ULB-TTO currently manages a portfolio of 115 active technologies, 91 of which are protected by a family of patents.
Companies that are interested in this may negotiate licensing contracts or collaboration agreements with the University, in order to develop available technologies and/or release them on the market.

See the technologies currently available:

Life Sciences & Health

• Better Genitourinary Cancer Diagnosis

  GLAM is an innovative device for personalized diagnosis and therapy monitoring for genitourinary cancers.

• Compositions and methods for treating mycobacterial infections

  New drug combination of Vancomycin and Orlistat useful to treat the bacteria m-Tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant (MDR) or extradrug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis.

• Device for cold plasma treatment

  New device and treatment using cold atmospheric plasma for ablation of the duodenal lining or regeneration of the mucosa.

• Device for sheering tissue

  New magnets used as endoscopic devices for surgical procedures (mainly for people suffering from non-Zenker’s esophageal diverticulum).

• Implementation of alternating langmuir and anti-langmuir zones in chromatography columns

  New tool to separate compounds in high performance liquid chromatography by alternating langmuir and anti-langmuir zones along the column.

• Method and system for the production of recombinant proteins by cells

  A new process that is designed to increase the quality of recombinant proteins production by a toxin/anti-toxin tool.

• Minimally invasive anchoring system

  Mini-invasive anchoring, Suturing, Stapling, Electrical stimulation, Percutaneous implantation, Single incision laparoscopy, Soft tissue.

• Modified-release 3D printed capsules

  New method for the production of functionalized capsules by 3D printing used to modify the release of drugs.

• Optical force transducer

  Medical device - Force Sensing - Force Feedback - Minimally invasive.

• Rapid diagnostic for bacterial infections

  New fast technique for extraction and detection of bacterial RNA like pneumocoques or otitis in patient blood by quantitative PCR (qPCR).

• Reactivation of HIV-1 gene expression to treat persistent HIV infection

  New drug combination with efficient cART used as a therapeutic perspective to decrease latent HIV-1.

• RHBG as a biomarker for cancer & a drug target to inhibit cancer proliferation

  Luminal, Breast Cancer, Diagnosis, RHBG, Biomarker.

Materials & Engineering

• Atmospheric plasma deposition of Crystalline inorganic coatings

  The invention of an induction heating system adapted to a reactor of the 'dielectricbarrier discharge' type known as DBD, opened up the field of crystalline deposits of inorganic material hitherto limited to deposition under vacuum or at very high temperature.

• Better Genitourinary Cancer Diagnosis

  GLAM is an innovative device for personalized diagnosis and therapy monitoring for genitourinary cancers.

• Device for cold plasma treatment

  New device and treatment using cold atmospheric plasma for ablation of the duodenal lining or regeneration of the mucosa.

• Device for sheering tissue

  New magnets used as endoscopic devices for surgical procedures (mainly for people suffering from non-Zenker’s esophageal diverticulum).

• Embedded piezoelectric transducers for ultrasonic monitoring of concrete structures

  The development of low-cost ultrasonic piezoelectric transducers to be embedded in concrete with applications in the field of non-destructive testing techniques (estimation of material properties from the very early age) and structural health monitoring (damage detection, on-line monitoring of civil infrastructure).

• Holographic sensor for potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX) monitoring

  Our invention performs in time a 3D imaging process within a volume to allow to count particles, even fastly moving, and to measure their sizes to determine the corresponding statistics on the cloud and concentrations.

• Implementation of alternating langmuir and anti-langmuir zones in chromatography columns

  New tool to separate compounds in high performance liquid chromatography by alternating langmuir and anti-langmuir zones along the column.

• Method for manufacturing Ti alloys with enhanced strength-ductility balance

  Additive manufacturing, EBM, SLM, Titanium alloys, TA6V, Thermal process, Post-treatments.

• Minimally invasive anchoring system

  Mini-invasive anchoring, Suturing, Stapling, Electrical stimulation, Percutaneous implantation, Single incision laparoscopy, Soft tissue.

• Optical force transducer

  Medical device - Force Sensing - Force Feedback - Minimally invasive.

Environment & Energy

• Atmospheric plasma deposition of Crystalline inorganic coatings

  The invention of an induction heating system adapted to a reactor of the 'dielectricbarrier discharge' type known as DBD, opened up the field of crystalline deposits of inorganic material hitherto limited to deposition under vacuum or at very high temperature.

• Implementation of alternating langmuir and anti-langmuir zones in chromatography columns

  New tool to separate compounds in high performance liquid chromatography by alternating langmuir and anti-langmuir zones along the column.

Contact:

Arnaud Quintens 
IP management and transfer unit ULB-TTO
arnaud.quintens@ulb.be
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