Health Technologies
Antegrade IMN
Arun Aneja, MD; Arjun Srinath, MD
Specially designed implants to treat complex fractures of the lower extremity. Through their unique intramedullary design, these implants provide biological benefits of smaller incisions and biomechanical advantage of early weight bearing.
Health Tech | Spring 2021 UAccel
Anti-Viral Masks
Rollie Mills
Technology that allows for the development of an individual face mask with greater virus particle filtration efficiency and less skin irritation while having the ability to deactivate virus particles that encounter the mask.
Health Tech | Fall 2021 UAccel
Anywhere Workout
Ketrell L. McWhorter, PhD, MBA, ACE-CPT, ACE-FNS
A 10-minute 'anywhere workout' program hosted on an innovative digital platform, where users can engage directly with the trainer and offers a holistic experience that rejuvenates the body, mind, and soul.
Health Tech | Spring 2024 UAccel
Bone Marrow Transplant Patient Device
Ming-Yuan Chih, PhD
A mobile and wearable system to support bone marrow transplant patients' recovery journey. This support system aims to promote patients’ physical activity, improve their communication with providers, and boost their motivation for recovery.
Health Tech | Spring 2022 UAccel
Bone Retrieval Device
Madhumathi Rao, MD
A tool used during the retrieval of bone via a bone biopsy procedure by refining the cutting method used to minimize bone damage and optimize bone core sample retrieval.
Health Tech | Spring 2024 UAccel
Brain Electrical Activity Detection
Sridhar Sunderam, PhD; Diane Iradukunda; Alex Wang
A method of detecting abnormal electrical activity in the brain related to epilepsy to help neurosurgical teams identify specific areas of brain tissue to be removed so that epilepsy patients can be free of seizures.
Health Tech | Fall 2022 UAccel
Brain Tumor Imaging Device
Guoqiang Yu, PhD
An innovative, low-cost, wearable, fluorescence imaging device that can be attached to the standard surgical eye loupes for helping neurosurgeons to easily and accurately identify brain tumors for safe and maximal resection.
Health Tech | Spring 2022 UAccel
Bridged Molecules
Taraman Kadayat, PhD
Sythesis of small, bridged molecules as selective DCN1 inhibitors and their use for cancer therapy.
Health Tech | Summer 2024 UAccel
Cerebral Vasospasm Biomarker
Wang-Xia Wang, PhD
A microRNA biomarker panel that can accurately determine a patient’s risk of developing cerebral vasospasm.
Health Tech | Spring 2022 UAccel
Cerelux
Partha Paul; Keith R Pennypacker, PhD
Cerelux's technology applys machine learning to gene expression and protein analysis of real-world stroke patients’ thrombus and blood samples from the brain. It addresses the unmet medical need in improving prognostics and creating therapeutics for stroke patients.
Health Tech | Spring 2021 UAccel , UAI 2
Diagnostic for Juvenile Batten disease
Qingjun Wang, PhD
A sensitive and reliable means to measure the amounts of normal and mutant CLN3 proteins in Juvenile Batten disease.
Health Tech | Fall 2020 UAccel
Dyscalculia Software Tool
Jay Hatcher
A software tool for both children and adults with dyscalculia that specifically assists with mathematical cognitive difficulties.
Health Tech | Summer 2024 UAccel
EEG-Controlled Prosthetic
Mahdi Yazdanpour, PhD
An inexpensive, personalized EEG-controlled prosthetic arm to remove barriers faced by individuals with upper limb amputation.
Medical Device | Fall 2022 UAccel
Endoscopic Device
Mark Fritz, MD; Guigen Zhang, PhD
Surgeons and endoscopists encounter bleeding frequently during endoscopic operations costing time, money, and the success of the operation itself. This medical device will revolutionize the level of bleeding regulation during these procedures to bring control back into the hands of the physician.
Health Tech | Fall 2021 UAccel
FamCare+
Anthony Faiola, PhD
FamCare+ is a mobile health service for reducing anxiety, depression, and PTSD by increasing communication and information flow between rural families and critical care clinicians at the bedside.
Health Tech | Fall 2022 UAccel
FlowCo
Ellen Steinke, Antonio Lamb, Jessica Bendiger
FlowCo strives to reshape the landscape of stem cell research and collection by increasing access to a wide range of high-quality, low-cost stem cells in an ethical and sustainable way.
Health Tech | Fall 2023 UAccel
Gene Therapy for Brain Tumor Cells
David Yurek, PhD
A combined gene therapy/nanoparticle approach to selectively target brain tumor cells as a means to kill tumor cells while sparing normal brain cells.
Therapeutic | Fall 2022 UAccel
The Graham Test
Michaela Keener, MS
The Graham Test provides a quick field concussion test that is occupation-specific for equestrians, specifically race riders. This technology removes the subjectivity on if an individual is ready to return to ride, and offers insight to bodily functions often impaired by concussion, such as reaction time, stability, and cognitive function.
Health Tech | Spring 2023 UAccel, I-Corps 1
Immunomag
Fanny Chapelin, PhD; Aman Khurana, MD; Roberto Gedaly, MD; Francesc Marti, PhD
A T-cell labeling and tracking protocol that uses commercially available FDA-approved agents and non-invasive MR imaging. This invention will pave the way for tracking T-cells in vivo and therefore improve clinical outcomes in patients with solid organ transplantation and cancer.
Health Tech | UAccel QS (Pilot), I-Corps (Pilot)
Interactive Tourniquet
Brittany Levy, MD; Jennifer Castle, MD
An automated emergency tourniquet, which provides feedback to the user regarding adequacy of tourniquet application. It provides step by step instruction to the user on how to apply the tourniquet, for life saving care.
Health Tech | Spring 2023 UAccel, I-Corps 1
In-Vivo Head Stabilization System
Chris Gant
In-vivo brain imaging requires extremely stable images and a versatile system that can be utilized in any number of imaging configurations. This in-vivo head stabilization system is stable and adaptable to any imaging system, allowing for easy implementation, rapid results, and repeatability.
Health Tech | Spring 2022 UAccel
LacBar
Melanie Dicks, Pharm.D; Sylvia Y. Ofei, MD
Cow’s milk protein allergy is the most common food intolerance in babies with symptoms including rashes, digestive, and respiratory problems. LacBar is a noninvasive home testing kit to detect the presence of cow’s milk protein in breast milk to help breastfeeding moms determine if they have successfully eliminated dairy from their diet.
Health Tech | Fall 2022 UAccel, I-Corps 1
Jared T. Hammill, PhD
Technology focusing on the clinical development of SJ733, a new medicine for the treatment and prevention of malaria.
Health Tech | Fall 2020 UAccel, UAI 1
Massage Measuring Device
Tim Butterfield, PhD
A device that is designed to permit the proper tuning and quantification of the mechano-therapeutic loads applied during massage. Real time data acquisition allows calculation of the dose of mechanotherapy imparted to the tissues and provides feedback for massage control and stored data for individualized assessment of optimum therapeutic dose-response.
Health Tech | Fall 2022 UAccel
Mini Trucks
Benjamin Atkinson, Steve Hitchcock
Unlocking the potential of children with mobility challenges by using ride-on toys and turning them into mobility learning environments.
Health Tech, EdTech | Summer 2023 UAccel, I-Corps
Mobile App for CHWs
Firaz Peer, PhD
A mobile application for community health workers to track services and client information on the go to help them manage their time and services more efficiently.
Health Tech | Fall 2023 UAccel
NanoMed
Maame Abena 0. Afrifa
NanoMed is an adaptive and non-invasive targeted drug delivery technology, NAT-1, for treating superficial cancers. NAT-1 enables the simultaneous delivery of dual chemotherapy agents, thereby reducing cancer drug resistance.
Health Tech | Spring 2024 UAccel
Nanopores
Doug Strachan, PhD
A nanopore device using cross gaps of two-dimensional materials to provide real-time readouts to detect and sequence DNA, RNA, and other polymeric molecules.
Health Tech | Spring 2023 UAccel
Nursing Footmark
Jitana Benton-Lee, DNP, MSN, MBA-HC, NEA-BC, CNE
Nursing Footmark is an app designed to document and track nurse skill competency at pre-licensure and licensed nursing levels.
Health Tech | Summer 2023 UAccel, I-Corps
Oral Breast Cancer Therapeutics
Samuel Awuah, PhD
Using novel gold-based compounds as a therapeutic platform to selectively alter distinct mitochondrial functions.
Health Tech | Fall 2023 UAccel
Period Care Products
Bethany Setser
Fostering community support via collection drives of period care products for underserved populations including those experiencing homelessness.
Health Tech | Summer 2024 UAccel
Physical Activity Model
Dee Dlugonski
A model to leverage community physical activity promotion resources to increase physical activity among youth with schools as partners.
Health Tech | Summer 2024 UAccel
Post-Op Pain Drug
Chang-Guo Zhan, PhD
Therapeutic for postoperative pain management and inflammatory disease.
Health Tech | Fall 2021 UAccel
Practical Healthcare
Ryan G Nazar, MD; Mark Cooksey
Practical Healthcare is the first social media platform purpose-built for patient empowerment.
Health Tech | Summer 2023 UAccel, I-Corps
QUILS
Trey Alexander, PhD; Jamie Studts, PhD
Quality Implementation of Lung Screening (QUILS) is a novel scoring system that provides feedback to screening programs and identifies opportunities for improvement or encourages programs to continue providing excellence in lung screening.
Health Tech | Spring 2022 UAccel
Sandwich ELISA
Deepak Kotiya, PhD
A sandwich ELISA that detects amylin-Aβ hetero-oligomers in brain tissue and blood samples of Alzheimer’s disease patients. This ELISA is helpful in assessing the effect of diabetes on Alzheimer’s disease.
Health Tech | Spring 2024 UAccel
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism-based, Mixed Cell Screening platform
Shulin Zhang, PhD; Chunming Liu, PhD; Chi Wang, PhD
A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism-based, Mixed Cell Screening platform, where the reactions of each cell line toward the candidate compound treatment can be differentiated by using “genetic tags” of each cell line and subsequent proprietary statistical deconvolution algorithm.
Health Tech | Spring 2024 UAccel
Telehealth Training Toolkit
Joneen Lowman, PhD
The Telehealth Training Toolkit seeks to ameliorate the training-to-practice gap by providing university healthcare educators with a comprehensive set of resources deigned to prepare students to effectively integrate telehealth into their clinical milieu. Grounded in research and published standards, the toolkit contains interprofessional case vignettes, simulations, and fillable forms each designed to ensure learners master telehealth competencies and skills.
Health Tech | Spring 2023 UAccel
The Blue Book
Kathryn Ruf, Pharm.D
UKHC Pharmacy Services Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Anticoagulation Guidelines (The Blue Book) is a medication policy, dosing, and monitoring reference intended to support clinical pharmacists, Departments of Pharmacy, and Colleges of Pharmacy. The Blue Book provides up-to-date and evidence-based guidance to ensure the safe use of medications and compliance with professional regulatory standards.
Health Tech, Web App | Fall 2022 UAccel
The Food Choice Tool
Leslie Woltenberg, PhD; Scott Black, MD
The Food Choice Tool provides an accessible mechanism to review nutritional quality and energy quantity in food. Current fitness or wellness trackers limit the average consumer’s ability to make informed food choices, typically utilizing one nutrient profiling system or calorie counting alone. The Food Choice tool integrates multiple nutrition data sources in a single system and can be customized based upon an individual’s needs and ultimately supporting their wellness goals.
Health Tech | Spring 2023 UAccel
Therapy Tracker
Sungjin Im, PhD
An assessment and report generating service for therapists to quickly report and access client data from psychometrically validated instruments.
Health Tech | Fall 2023 UAccel
Three-Dimensional Printed Organs
Jason Applegate, MSRS, RT(R)(CT), CNMT
A process for creating 3D printable files
from DICOM data to use for creating replica's of organs for educational purposes or bioimplantable prosthetics.
Health Tech | Spring 2023 UAccel
Vesicure Technologies (MEVs)
Jill Kolesar, PharmD; Chris Richards, PhD
Developing Macrophage Derived Engineered Vesicles (MEVs) as an effective and non-toxic treatment for ovarian cancer.
Health Tech | Fall 2023 UAccel
Voice Therapy App
Kaile Alford, Vrushali Angadi, PhD; Ming-Yuan Chih, PhD
A smartphone application that delivers and monitors home practice for a strongly evidence-based voice therapy program, VFEs. In addition, the app provides videos of each exercise performed by trained clinicians and the ability for the patient to record their attempts for a clinician to review.