
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
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
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 | Spring 2023 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 | Fall 2022 UAccel
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 (Pilot), I-Corps
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
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 | Fall 2023 UAccel
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 | Fall 2021 UAccel
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
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)
Death Scene Investigation
Sabrina Brown, PhD
The Death Scene Investigation Mobile Technology aims to improve written scene documentation and photo evidence and documentation of decedent information.
Software | Spring 2024 UAccel
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 | Fall 2021 UAccel
Digital Twins
Hala Nassereddine, PhD; Amin Khoshkenar, PhD
Developing digital twins for the construction industry to create a scalable and flexible solution for contractors, owners, and facility managers.
Environmental/Sustainability Tech | Summer 2024 UAccel
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)
Educational Board Game
Suzanne Pilon, PhD
An educational board game to review fundamental nursing concepts, making learning and reviewing key concepts fun and interactive.
EdTech | Spring 2024 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
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 | Spring 2022 UAccel
Global Asias Research and Creativity Incubator
Liang Luo, PhD
Global Asias Research and Creativity Incubator aims to synthesize current research concerning Asia, the AAPI communities in Kentucky, the global Asian diaspora, and other underrepresented communities through international and local collaboration, and making such research accessible.
Services | Spring 2024 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
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 | Fall 2021 UAccel
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
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 | Spring 2021 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
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 | Fall 2021 UAccel
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 | Fall 2021 UAccel
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
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 | Fall 2020 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
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 | Fall 2021 UAccel
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.
Hardware | Spring 2023 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
Earthquake Research
Thomas Goebel, PhD
A new, large-scale effort for the recording and analysis of seismic data using a combination of novel instrumentation and artificial intelligence.
Environmental Tech | Spring 2024 UAccel
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 | Fall 2022 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.
Health Tech | Spring 2023 UAccel
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.
Consumer Product | Fall 2021 UAccel
Legal Consultancy for Arts Non-Profits
Yuha Jung, PhD
This consultancy is dedicated to expediting the development of legal expertise within arts and cultural nonprofit organizations in Kentucky through research and education.