Dr. Theresa Baus (Outstanding Technology Transfer Professional Award) - From left: J. Susan Sprake, FLC Vice-Chair; Dr. Theresa Baus; Edward Linsenmeyer, FLC Chair.

Dr. Theresa Baus, Northeast Regional Coordinator, was presented with the first Outstanding Technology Transfer Professional Award at the 2007 FLC awards ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 17. Dr. Baus was recognized for her work as head of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), Division Newport's Technology Partnership Enterprise Office.

Among Dr. Baus' accomplishments was finding partners in the medical community to further develop and push the commercialization of technologies. From this effort, a groundbreaking technology to improve cancer detection through improved medical imaging was successfully transferred and commercialized.

The Digital Image Enhancement (DIE) system uses wavelets and mathematical functions to help physicians detect tissue anomalies and interpret digital mammograms. Originally used to help sailors identify mines in a cluttered underwater environment, DIE helps physicians look for microcalcifications in a mammogram of dense breast tissue. DIE software is slated to be integrated into commercial use by this summer pending a sublicense agreement with a leading manufacturer of digital mammography equipment. With DIE in place at hospitals and clinics across the nation, doctors will be able to refine and enhance regions of interest or concern within mammography images to improve the detection of cancer in its early stages.

Under Dr. Baus' leadership, NUWC has partnered in a number of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) totaling over $9 million, nine patent license agreements with royalties totaling nearly $2 million, and 81 Work for Private Parties agreements totaling over $8.6 million.

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