Lingjun Li, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been awarded an Innovation and Economic Development Research (IEDR) grant from the UW-Madison Graduate School. These grants require collaboration with industry to bring an invention to patentable status and often allow faculty to generate additional public and private-sector support for their research programs, engage in inventive research, and promote technology transfer between the university and industry. The IEDR Program has distributed 15 grants for 2009-10 totaling more than $720,000.