Announcing the 2023 SPARK Award Recipients
- Lead scientists: Eric Appel, Shoshana Williams and Travis Lantz
Title: Intranasal drug delivery for antenatal depression
This project is supported by MCHRI
- Lead scientists: Katrin Svensson and Laetitia Voilquin
Title: Peptide for treating obesity and weight-related disorders
This project is supported by Bio-X
- Lead scientists: Lihua Ying and David Cornfield
Title: Novel therapy for preterm labor to prevent prematurity
This project is supported by MCHRI
- Lead scientists: Sean Spencer and Justin Sonnenburg
Title: Treatment of pediatric food allergy using novel fermented food-derived therapeutics
This project is supported by MCHRI
- Lead scientists: Nima Aghaeepour and Lance Prince
Title: Precision Nutrition for Premature Newborns
This project is supported by MCHRI
- Lead scientists: Ru-Siou Hsu and Stanley Liu
Title: Osteogenic glue to promote bone regeneration and assist fracture fixation and healing
This project is jointly supported by the department of Otolaryngology and CTSA/SPECTRUM
- Lead scientists: Yang Hu and Liang Li
Title: Developing AAV-mediated gene therapy for glaucoma
This project is supported by Stanford Ophthalmology
- Lead scientist: Rukayat Taiwo and Melanie Hayden-Gephart
Title: Development of a diagnostic liquid biopsy test for characterization of glioblastoma
This project is jointly supported by the Dean’s office and CTSA/SPECTRUM
- Lead scientists: Alexander Dunn, Possu Huang and Paul Rujigrok
Title: Development of a sensitive and robust malaria diagnostic using designed de novo antigen binders
This project is supported by MCHRI
- Lead scientists: Michelle Griffin and Michael Longaker
Title: A novel target to prevent and treat skin scar formation
This project is jointly supported by the Dean’s office and CTSA/SPECTRUM
- Lead scientists: Eric Appel, Jerry Yan and Olivia Saouaf
Title: Sustained delivery technologies for engineering potent and durable vaccines
This project is jointly supported by CTSA/SPECTRUM and Bio-X
- Lead scientists: Yusuke Nakauchi and Ravindra Majeti
Title: Allele-specific anti-HLA antibodies as theranostic agents in hematopoietic cell transplantation
This project is jointly supported by CTSA/SPECTRUM and Bio-X