Announcing the 2025 SPARK Award Recipients
Thanks to our partners who helped support these projects:
Stanford MCHRI, BioX, Stanford Spectrum, and the Dean’s Office
Saranya Chidambaranathan Reghupaty and Katrin Svensson
Title: A novel peptide treatment for obesity and appetite-related disorders
Yung-Hao Lin, Jessica Sacher, Ovijit Chaudhuri and Paul Bollyky
Title: Novel phage cocktails to treat skin and soft tissue infections
Murtaza Hassan and Kevin Grimes
Title: Developing molecular glue degraders for the treatment of cancer
Ivana Maric and David Stevenson
Title: Low-cost, point-of-care tool for early prediction of preeclampsia
Jinendra Ekanayake and Gary Steinberg
Title: Prevention of transient neurological episodes in Moyamoya disease patients post-surgery
Bo Zhou and Hanlee Ji
Title: Expanded applications of cell free DNA sequencing for non-invasive prenatal testing
Kelly Yoo, Michael Lin and Michael Lim
Title: Programmed viruses for brain cancer
Zhen Xiao, Manu Prakash, and Jianghong Rao
Title: Rapid, sensitive point-of-care detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Manon Gourdelier and Shirit Einav
Title: Rescuing diverse ALS forms and other proteinopathies
John Hegarty
Title: Transcranial magnetic stimulation for targeting the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder
Daniel Richman and Ron Dror
Title: Synthetic Peptides for Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
Arash Keshavarzi Arshadi and Euan Ashley
Title: Design of AAV capsids for cardiac tissue delivery
Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski and Corey Keller
Title: Optimizing depression treatment through sleep-state brain stimulation
George Walters-Marrah, Monther Abu-Remaileh and Polly Fordyce
Title: STRAND: A mix-and-read diagnostic to detect foreign and aberrant DNA
Jimin Yoon, Gabriel Tauber, John Shin and Dan Herschlag
Title: Rational design principles for RNA therapeutics
Joanna Wysocka, Daniel Jarosz, Shady Saad
Title: Novel approaches for counteracting protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases