FY-2007 Top 20 Commercially Successful Inventions

(based on royalties on product sales)

	VACCINES & THERAPEUTICS
Rank
2	Monoclonal Antibody for Treatment of RSV	Murphy et al.	NIAID
4	HPV Vaccines Based Upon Recombinant Papillomavirus Capsid Proteins	Lowy et al.	NCI
5	Synthetic Thyrotropin as Adjuvant in Thyroid Cancer	Wondisford et al.	NIDDK
6	AIDS Drug ddI	Mitsuya et al.	NCI
7	Proteosome Inhibitor for Treatment of Multiple Myeloma	Gupta et al.	NCI
8	Paclitaxel as a Cancer Treatment	Wilson et al.	NCI
9	Hepatitis A Vaccine (Strain HM-175)	Daemer et al. / Funkhouser et al.	NIAID
10	Nutritional Supplement to Treat Macular Degeneration	Ferris et al.	NEI
11	Novel Protease Inhibitor for Treatment of Drug-Resistant HIV-1	Erickson et al.	NCI
13	Radioimmunotherapy for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma	Gansow et al.	NCI
14	Vaccinia Virus Vector Used in Veterinary Biologicals/Vaccines	Moss et al.	NIAID
17	Palifermin for Treatment of Oral Mucositis	Rubin et al.	NCI


	DIAGNOSTICS
Rank
3	Serological Detection of Antibodies to HIV-1	Gallo et al. / Montagnier et al.	NCI
12	DNA Probe for Breast Cancer Diagnosis	King et al.	NCI
16	Genoyping of HIV Protease Gene	Oroszlan et al.	NCI
18	Serological Detection of Antibodies to HTLV-1	Papas et al.	NCI


	INSTRUMENTATION & DEVICES
Rank
1	Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System	Kinsella et al.	NIA
15	Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Through Magnetization Transfer	Balaban et al.	NHLBI
19	Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging	Basser et al.	NICHD
20	Laser Capture Microdissection	Liotta et al.	NCI

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