Congratulations to the 16 teams selected as semifinalists for the WVU Pilot IgniteWV Deep Tech Track.

• Team #1: Matthew Wilson
  Team Members: Jean Meade — Co-Founder; Jerry Yates — Director of Commercial Strategy

• Team #2: Matt Kasson
  Team Members: Dr. Brian Lovett — Co-Investigator & Business Partner

• Team #3: Carol Wright Becker
  Team Members: Matthew Smith; Shon Rowan — Partners

• Team #4: Carol Wright Becker
  Team Members: Zosia Sabolsky — Chief Engineer; Brooke Close; Gretchen Foster; Luke Markowski; Sydney Smith

• Team #5: Rahul Singh
  Team Members: Rahul Singh — Inventor

• Team #6: Mehrab Marzban
  Team Members: Vinay Badhwar — Contributor

• Team #7: Mehrab Marzban
  Team Members: James Hunter Mehaffey — Co-Researcher; Vinay Badhwar — Co-Researcher

• Team #8: Slawomir Lukomski, PhD
  Team Members: Brian Boone, MD — PDAC Expertise & Tumor Immunology; Sharan Bobbala, PhD — Liposome Formulation; Emily Godfrey, PhD — Scl1-Based Preclinical Research

• Team #9: Bingyun Li
  Team Members: Kneisha McDonald — PhD Graduate Student; Peter Qian — Undergraduate Student

• Team #10: Dr. Denis Ruto
  Team Members: Dr. Lian-Shin Lin — CEO; Dr. Denis Ruto — CTO; Md Omur Faruk — Graduate Research Assistant

• Team #11: Bruce S. Kang
  Team Members: Tianwei Lu — PhD Student

• Team #12: Xueyan Song

• Team #13: Xueyan Song
  Team Members: Cesar Octavio Romo De La Cruz; Yun Chen — Technology Co-Inventors
  
• Team #14: Nhan Hoang Khuu
  Team Members: Oishi Sanyal — Faculty Advisor & Co-Inventor; Nhan Hoang Khuu — Team Lead & Co-Inventor

• Team #15: Yihong Li
  Team Members: Dr. Xingbo Liu; Dr. Zixiao Liu

• Team #16: Mohamed Omar Abdelhadi, PhD
• Team Members: Michael Rivera — PhD Student; Dr. Ray Liang — Manufacturing & Project Management; Dr. Hota Gangarao — Technical Adviso