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Paul Sanberg is on his way to the hall of fame.
The Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, that is.
Sanberg joins a 2015 class that includes a Nobel Prize winner and Henry Ford, among others.
Sanberg is the senior vice president for research, innovation and economic development at the University of South Florida, and he founded the National Academy of Inventors. He met the hall of fame requirements for having at least one U.S. patent, stemming from his drug and cell therapies work for treating stroke and brain diseases. Sanberg has more than 100 domestic and foreign patents, and his work has helped treat conditions like Tourette syndrome, depression, stroke and Huntington's disease, according to USF's website.
Also joining Sanberg is Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Co., who established a rubber test site in Fort Myers with Thomas Edison. He also conducted aeronautical research in Florida on early airplanes, and even used his work in the state to pass the Plant Patent Act of 1930. That made it possible to patent new varieties of plants in support of famous botanist Luther Burbank.
Other nominees include:
Robert Grubbs, the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, and the 2005 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry;
Robert Holton, who invented the chemical synthesis of Taxol, a widely used anti-cancer drug;
Jason Pratt, for his work in robotics;
Nan-Yao Su, the inventor of Sentricon, an environmentally friendly termite colony elimination system; and
Janet Yamamoto, for her work in discovering a vaccine for feline immunodeficiency virus, and for furthering research on human-based HIV.
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