Announcing the 2021 SPARK Award Recipients
- Lead scientist: Eric Appel
Title: An ultra-fast insulin to improve diabetes treatment
This project is supported by MCHRI
- Lead scientists: Maria Barna, Craig Kerr and Travis Lantz
Title: Treatment of Diamond Blackfan anemia
This project is supported by MCHRI
- Lead scientists: Vivek Bhalla, Ave Thakor and Demitri Maxim
Title: Treatment of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
This project is supported by MCHRI
- Lead scientists: Ami Bhatt, Patrick Hsu, Michael Bassik, Lacramioara Bintu, Matt Durrant, Josh Tycko and Aravind Natarajan
Title: Advancing next-generation gene therapy
This project is supported by MCHRI
- Lead scientists: Thomas Cherpes, Rodolfo Vicetti Miguel and Nick Quispe Calla
Title: A novel therapy for genitourinary syndrome of menopause
- Lead scientists: Utkan Demirci, Tanya Stoyanova, Mehmet Ozen, and En-Chi Hsu
Title: Liquid biopsy-based detection of biomarkers for early cancer detection
- Lead scientists: Ed Engleman and Sreya Bagchi
Title: Targeting cancers in obese patients
This project is jointly supported by Hwang Foundation
- Lead scientist: Yang Hu
Title: Treatment for glaucoma
This project is jointly supported by Stanford Ophthalmology
- Lead scientists: Kelly Mahaney and Jay Rajadas
Title: Prevention of post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus in neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage
This project is supported by MCHRI
- Lead scientists: Hiro Nakauchi and Fabian Suchy
Title: Rapid detection of common cell culture irregularities
- Lead scientists: Jeffery Norton, Deshka Foster and Jason Guo
Title: Prevention of abdominal adhesions after surgery
This project is jointly supported by BioX
- Lead scientists: Chirag Patel and Corinne Beinat
Title: Imaging methods for improved management of glioblastoma
This project is jointly supported by the Hwang Foundation
- Lead scientists: Gerlinde Wernig and Tristan Lerbs
Title: Treatment of lung cancer and fibrotic lung disease
This project is jointly supported by BioX