Announcing the 2021 SPARK Award Recipients
SPARK is grateful for the support of the Dean’s office, Stanford MCHRI, the Weston-Havens foundation, SPECTRUM, BioX, the Stanford Cancer Institute, and the departments of Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, and Otolaryngology in funding these projects
- Lead Scientists: Jin Billy Li, Jonathan M. Geisinger, Xin Liu
Title: Discovery of small molecule inhibitors for autoimmune diseases
- Lead Scientist: Paul George
Title: Development of a Stroke Recovery Therapeutic
- Lead Scientists: Jon-Paul Pepper, Phil Beachy
Title: Topical treatments to enhance motor nerve regeneration after injury and repair
- Lead Scientists: Gerald Crabtree, Nathanael Gray
Title: Hijacking Breast Cancer Drivers to Activate Apoptotic Pathways
- Lead Scientists: Mehrdad Shamloo, Jennifer Lin
Title: Novel therapeutics for treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
- Lead Scientists: Joyce Liao, Ajay Kumar
Title: A Small Molecule Therapy for The Treatment of Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
- Lead Scientists: Wendy Liu, Jeffery Goldberg
Title: Promoting scar-free tissue reconstruction after glaucoma surgery
- Lead Scientist: Alan Pao
Title: Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors for Prevention of Kidney Stones
- Lead Scientists: Daria Mochly-Rosen, Benjamin Kraemer
Title: Novel Therapeutic for Pediatric Hyperprolinemia Type II
- Lead Scientists: Kevin Grimes, Rebecca Chan, Justin Donnelly, Nick Diamantoni, Samson Mataraso, Carly Tompkins
Title: A Novel Treatment for Pre-Eclampsia
- Lead Scientists: Maria Grazia Roncarolo, Alma-Martina Cepika, Mara Pavel-Dinu, Matthew Porteus, Alice Bertaina
Title: Development of a 2nd generation engineered Tr1 cell therapy
- Lead Scientists: Thomas Larocca, Matthew Wheeler
Title: Development of an anti-sense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapeutic in a pediatric patient with refractory epilepsy
- Lead Scientists: Elizabeth Mellins, Jennifer Frankovich
Title: Development of actionable biomarkers in pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS)
- Lead Scientists: Claudia Petritsch, Gerald Grant, Paolo Decuzzi
Title: microMESH-based therapeutic approach for children with brain cancer
- Lead Scientists: Bereketeab Haileselassie, Daria Mochly-Rosen
Title: Identifying an inhibitor of immune dysregulation in pediatric sepsis
- Lead Scientists: Alice Bertaina, Priscila Ferreira Slepicka
Title: Genetic Engineering of Gamma Delta (γδ) T Cells as Immunotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia