FY-2008 Top 20 Commercially Successful Inventions
(based on royalties on product sales)
![]() | VACCINES & THERAPEUTICS | ||
| Rank | |||
| 2 | HPV Vaccines Based Upon Recombinant Papillomavirus Capsid Proteins | Lowy et al. | NCI |
| 3 | Monoclonal Antibody for Treatment of RSV | Murphy et al. | NIAID |
| 4 | Novel Protease Inhibitor for Treatment of Drug-Resistant HIV-1 | Erickson et al. | NCI |
| 5 | Proteosome Inhibitor for Treatment of Multiple Myeloma | Gupta et al. | NCI |
| 7 | AIDS Drug ddI | Mitsuya et al. | NCI |
| 8 | Synthetic Thyrotropin as Adjuvant in Thyroid Cancer | Wondisford et al. | NIDDK |
| 10 | Paclitaxel as a Cancer Treatment | Wilson et al. | NCI |
| 11 | Nutritional Supplement to Treat Macular Degeneration | Ferris et al. | NEI |
| 12 | Hepatitis A Vaccine (Strain HM-175) | Daemer et al. / Funkhouser et al. | NIAID |
| 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 | |||
| 6 | Serological Detection of Antibodies to HIV-1 | Gallo et al. / Montagnier et al. | NCI |
| 9 | DNA Probe for Breast Cancer Diagnosis | King et al. | NCI |
| 15 | Norwalk Virus - IVD Product | Green et al. | NIAID |
| 18 | Genoyping of HIV Protease Gene | Oroszlan et al. | NCI |
| 20 | Serological Detection of Antibodies to HTLV-1 | Papas et al. | NCI |
![]() | INSTRUMENTATION & DEVICES | ||
| Rank | |||
| 1 | Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System | Kinsella et al. | NIA |
| 13 | Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Basser et al. | NICHD |
| 16 | Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Through Magnetization Transfer | Balaban et al. | NHLBI |
![]() | RESEARCH MATERIALS | ||
| Rank | |||
| 19 | Purified Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGF-beta) | Sporn et al. | NCI |



