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 | UAccel 2
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 | UAccel 3
a.w.e cup
Andrew Dorn, Savannah Reed, Brianna Kayatin
The a.w.e. cup is an innovative menstrual cup that will promote affordability, wellness, and empowerment.
Consumer Product | UAccel QS, I-Corps
BioHerbicide
Mohammad R. Alsabri
Technology that creates new herbicidal mechanisms for environmentally friendly weed control produced by a bacterium.
AgTech | UAccel 2
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 | UAccel 4
BossiRainbow
Jaleesa Wells, PhD
The development of an art material made from renewable and/or recyclable raw materials. The goal is to reduce or remove the reliance of artists and art practices on art materials that contribute to harming the environment by developing an renewable or recyclable art material that is familiar in its properties and functions.
Environmental Tech | UAccel 6, I-Corps
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 | UAccel 5
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 | UAccel 4
CARAT-TOP
Patrick Kitzman, PhD, PT; Hannah O’Leary
A service-learning program, Coordinating and Assisting the Reuse of Assistive Technology – Together One Priority (CARAT-TOP) that focuses on engaging and giving a voice to students who are typically left out of opportunities and to show that all students are able to contribute to community solutions.
Ed Tech | UAccel QS, I-Corps
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 | UAccel 4
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 | UAccel 2, UAI 2
Child Welfare Training App
Kimberly Green, Ed.D; Daniel Boamah, PhD,
A virtual reality training environment platform for child welfare practitioners to increase their awareness of implicit biases.
EdTech | UAccel 6, I-Corps, UAI 6
CIA Trust Badge
Ankur Chattopadhyay, PhD; Seth Adjei, PhD
A multi-modal data driven computationally intelligent CIA (COVID Infodemic Advisor) recommender, which is designed as a web browser extension for reporting on the trustworthiness of any online COVID information claim.
Software | UAccel 9
CO2 Capture Packing Material
Bradley Irvin
Acoustic driven packing material can increase the absorption rate of liquid-gas chemical absorption process, such as CO2 capture, by up to 40 percent. This can substantially reduce the initial capital costs of certain chemical processes and make the adoption of CO2 capture technologies more feasible for affected industries.
Environmental Tech | UAccel 3
Copper Catalyst
Aron Huckaba, PhD
A novel copper catalyst for performing the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition, which is used across the world in research labs to study biochemical problems and systems.
Environmental Tech | UAccel 9
Cross the Finish Line
Jamaal Jackson, Ed.D.
Cross the Finish Line is an e-Learning tool for college coaches & staff working with Black male student-athletes. The e-Learning modules include: academic guidance, mental health and cultural competence. They aim to boost retention, persistence & graduation rates.
Ed Tech | UAI 2
Cursor
Nicholas Caporusso, PhD
Cursor is a gaze tracking and sharing solution for enhancing collaboration in remote sessions.
Software | UAccel 4, I-Corps 1
Dance Program
Renee Gallagher
A program that connects the learning experience regardless of where a learner lives in order to increase the access to ballroom dancing.
EdTech | UAccel 9
DART
Sujit Sinha, PhD candidate
DART is data-driven, adaptive, and real-time precision metrology. Employing a retrospective cost adaptation algorithm along with a numerical weather simulation model to improve precision, sub 1 kilometer, meteorology. The algorithm uses a data driven approach to force the weather model to actual observations, which thereby improves the forecast.
Environmental Tech | UAccel QS (Pilot), I-Corps (Pilot)
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 | UAccel 1
Dialysis Health Records
Javier Neyra, MD
An interactive platform for extraction, harmonization, management, and utilization of big data from electronic health records and dialysis devices to improve the quality and delivery of dialysis in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units.
Software | UAccel 3
Earth Deep
Bakhyt Alipova-Turner, PhD
An electronic technology for engineers to provide a better way to build underground structures and observe the movements of the earth's crust. It is also useful in the construction of underground structures, gas and oil storage facilities, subways, mines, etc.
Environmental Tech | UAccel QS (Pilot), I-Corps (Pilot)
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 | UAccel 5
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 | UAccel 3
ExpFlow
Chad Risko, PhD; Rebekah Duke; Vinayak Bhat
ExpFlow provides a robust way to store standardized experimental procedures and data for consistent reporting. Integrating ExpFlow into one's experimental and data analysis workflows will allow for more time for discovery, and less worrying about experimental reproducibility, data management, and data sharing.
Software | UAccel 4
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 | UAccel 5
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 | UAccel 9
Forensic Sampling Collection Tool
Jamie Fredericks, PhD
A modular forensic sample collection tool that can be used to lower the cost and speed up the process of DNA profiling in order to reduce the time it takes to identify victims and suspects of crime.
Law Enforcement, Biotech | UAccel 5
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 | UAccel 5
GradED Gaming
Joshua Covington, PhD; Rachelle Wood; Taylor Young
GradED Gaming is a comprehensive, credit-bearing, game-based solution that offers engaging, hands-on educational opportunities in an equitable way in the Metaverse.
EdTech | UAccel 7, I Corps
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 | UAccel 6, 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 | UAccel 6, 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 | UAccel 4
Ionic Cellulose Materials
Kevin Miller, PhD; David Salas-de la Cruz, PhD
Developing a flexible, conductive cellulose-based material, which could be applied in reusable sensors and flexible batteries.
Hardware | UAccel 9
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 | UAccel 5, I-Corps 1
Lean Manufacturing Game
Fazleena Badurdeen, PhD; John Meister; Tony Elam
A single- and multi-player virtual game involving a multi-station production line that can be transformed into a just-in-time manufacturing system by applying lean tools and techniques. The innovation will offer a versatile, cost-effective, and easy-to-use tool to increase student engagement and effectively teach lean concepts in the online environment and also complement in-person learning.
EdTech | UAccel 3
LIBs Metal Recovery Method
Ahamed Ullah, PhD; Yuxuan Zhang
A new type of hydrophobic ternary deep eutectic solvent (htDES) and a methodology to extract and recover critical metals from spent battery cathodes.
Environmental Tech | UAccel 7, I-Corps
Jared T. Hammill, PhD
Technology focusing on the clinical development of SJ733, a new medicine for the treatment and prevention of malaria.
Health Tech | UAccel 1, 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 | UAccel 5
Media Prop Kit
Sunil N. Ketty
Prop Kit allows individuals to pre-visualize proper modeling techniques prior to creating content through industry standard computer software. The placement of 3D geometry is vital when creating the mesh object for a 3D character, vehicle, prop, or asset.
EdTech | UAccel 2
Medskin
DeShana Collett, PhD, PA-C; Samuel Powdrill, PA-C
The MedSkin artificial skin was created to address the problem with the lack of realistic, anatomically accurate low-fidelity task medical trainers that are also multifunctional, durable, portable, and reusable.
EdTech | UAccel 3
Microfluidic Platform Technology
Guigen Zhang, PhD
A microfluidic-based platform technology with wide-range separation and single-micron differentiation capabilities in an easy-to-operate and high-throughput manner.
Hardware | UAccel 5
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 | UAccel 7, I-Corps
Mixed Reality Language App
James Brusuelas, PhD
A Mixed Reality application for language learning using Microsoft's HoloLens2.
EdTech | UAccel 6
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 | UAccel 9
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 | UAccel 6
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 | UAccel 7, 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 | UAccel 9
ORB Technologies
Ginger Watkins
ORB Technologies’ Biomie is a plant-based, insulating block that is structurally durable, carbon-storing, and non-toxic from cradle to grave. It enables professional and nonprofessional builders to achieve a superior thermal envelope with hand-liftable components, a quick dry-in process, and a predictable cost and schedule.
Environmental Tech | UAccel QS (Pilot), I-Corps (Pilot)
Plant Immunity
Aardra Kachroo, PhD
Technology targeted toward disease management in crop and horticulturally important crops. This chemical-free technology will enhance plant tolerance to a wide array of microbial diseases while minimizing environmental, human health, and regulatory concerns. The technology will lower production costs and impact the US agricultural economy.
AgTech | UAccel 3
Plastic Extraction
Jameson Hunter
Hydrophobic natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are a cheap, non-toxic, and easy to synthesize class of solvent that has shown to be effective in extracting micro-and nano-plastic particles from water. This could be utilized by micro-and nano-plastic researchers to detect plastic in water samples more efficiently or to separate plastic from other contaminants.
Environmental Tech | UAccel 3
Post-Op Pain Drug
Chang-Guo Zhan, PhD
Therapeutic for postoperative pain management and inflammatory disease.
Health Tech | UAccel 3
Practical Healthcare
Ryan G Nazar, MD; Mark Cooksey
Practical Healthcare is the first social media platform purpose-built for patient empowerment.
Health Tech | UAccel 7, 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 | UAccel 4
Q-Zoo
Calvin Secrest Jr.
A quantum computing technology that allows researchers, developers, and engineers to build stable, reliable quantum computers and sensors without suffering from noise and hardware error.
AI, Quantum Computing | UAccel 5
REE Recycling
Marcelo Guzman, PhD; David Atwood, PhD
An apparatus for trace gas detection that includes unmanned aerial vehicles and a ground station all adapted for monitoring ambient environmental parameters and trace gas detection.
Environmental Tech | UAccel 9
Roots of the Ancients
Andrew Byrd, PhD; John Meister
Roots of the Ancients, an educational video game, transports players to prehistoric times to battle monsters, embark on quests, and speak in ancient tongue, while learning about prehistory, archaeology, mythology, and linguistics.
EdTech | UAccel 1
State Agency Water Data Platform
John Blair
A platform to address data management inefficiencies in State agency daily operations, focusing is the centralization of data, forms, and reports while streamlining the most common tasks. The goal is to significantly reduce the time of data management and research tasks, allowing agents greater opportunity to perform other critical job functions.
Environmental Tech, Software | UAccel 3
Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, PhD; Rob Pace, PhD; Great Umenweke
Active, selective, stable, recyclable and inexpensive catalysts capable of converting different waste and renewable feeds to Sustainable Aviation Fuel blend stock. This novel catalytic technology is not only practicable, but addresses several of the drawbacks of the technology currently employed to perform this transformation.
Energy Tech | UAccel 6
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 | UAccel 6
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 | UAccel 5
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 | UAccel 6
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 | UAccel 9
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 | UAccel 6
ToolwiseTM
Adrian DeWald, PhD; Julius Schoop, PhD
ToolwiseTM is an automated tool condition monitoring system, which helps machine shops and other manufacturers who want to manufacture high-quality parts for critical applications by improving machining efficiency, profitability, and throughput and reducing the amount of quality escapes and scrapped parts unlike existing indirect monitoring systems that have limited reliability.
Manufacturing | UAccel 5
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 | UAccel 9
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.
Health Tech | UAccel 6
VR Case
Dmitry Strakovsky
A carrying case for the VR equipment that can be deployed within the clinical settings and potentially generalizable to other public uses of VR and like equipment.
Hardware | UAccel 9
Weightlifting App
Lance Bollinger, PhD
A novel app for mobile and wearable devices to track motion during resistance training. The clinical goals are to optimize adaptations to exercise and limit risk of acute injury and overtraining.
SaaS | UAccel 3
Work-From-Home Pet Accessory
Paul Rodgers
To help solve the spatial limitations of the home office, this invention—a compact, cushioned side seat attachment for office chairs—provides a comfortable, designated location for a cat or small breed dog to occupy, at arm’s reach yet outside the view of the web camera, so that tasks can be performed efficiently and in a distraction-free context.