Awardees
2023 Fall Awardees
General Track

Manuel Gamero-Castano
School of Engineering
Silicon-Based Electrospray Thruster System for SmallSats.

Petra Wilder-Smith
Beckman Laser Institute / School of Medicine
Integrated Intelligent Intraoral Camera for Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer Screening and Management to Achieve Early Detection and Better Outcomes.

AI in Storytelling Track

Jeff Krichmar
School of Social Sciences
CARLSim: A Framework for Large-Scale Detailed Spiking Neural Network Development.

Mark Warschauer
School of Education
Papyrus AI: an intelligent Writing Coach for K-12 Schools

Sustainability Track

Huolin Xin
School of Physical Sciences
Toward commercialization of an ultrathin polymer electrolyte for high energy density, all-solid-state lithium batteries

2023 Spring Awardees

David Kisailus
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Development of Nanoporous Graphitic Carbon-Metal Nanocomposite Materials for Water Purification

Xiaoyu Shi
School of Biological Sciences
Single-cell spatial proteomics for Alzheimer’s therapeutics

Abe Lee
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
An acoustic-dielectrophoretic transducer (ADEPT) platform for high throughput and precision cell sorting in cancer immunotherapy

Krzysztof Palczewski
School of Medicine
Use of systems pharmacology to prevent age-related macular degeneration

Daniele Piomelli
School of Medicine
A medical food that prevents the emergence of chronic pain after surgery

Maksim Plikus
School of Biological Sciences
Bio-manufacture of face and neck cartilage from Human Pluripotent Cells

2021 Fall Awardees

Eric Potma
School of Physical Sciences
Sensors to detect biomarkers from exhaled breath

Houlin Xin
School of Physical Sciences
Doped Ultra-High-Nickel Layered Cathode for Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries

Hung Cao
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Cloud-enabled Passive Wireless pH Monitoring in Small Vials

Peter Kaiser
School of Medicine
Small Molecule Correctors for Mutants of the Tumor Suppressor

2020 Fall Awardees

Mathew Blurton-Jones
School of Biological Sciences
Patient-specific Cell Therapy for a Lethal Genetic Disease of the Brain’s White Matter

Ralph Clayman
School of Medicine
Development of a Novel Modular Wireless Large Bore Vacuum Universal Endoscope a.k.a. Vacuumscope

Jesse Jackson
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
CUBITS: The Commercialization of Marching Cubes Made Physical and Tangible

Ichiro Yuki
School of Medicine
Development of a Novel Liquid Embolic Material Used for the Treatment of Stroke Patients

2020 Spring – Anthem and Danaher Track Awardees

Caryn Bradley
School of Medicine
Pedi-Sync: An Integrated Biomedical Platform with Clinical Algorithm for Determining Optimum Feeding Protocols for Preterm Infants

Hung Cao
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Novel Patches for Fetal and Maternal Monitoring in the Home Setting

Arash Kheradvar
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Helix Cardia: A Minimally-Invasive Whole-
Heart Assist Device

2019 Fall Awardees

Dan Cooper
School of Medicine
A Novel Noninvasive Method to Assess Asthma Inhaler Compliance and Lung Function Through Aerosol Detection in the Exhaled Breath in Children and Adults

Gamal Ghoniem
School of Medicine
DENERA: DEtrusor NErve Radiofrequency Ablation: Pre-clinical Study on Safety

Michelle Khine
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Non-Invasive Continuous Blood Pressure Band-Aid© Sensor

Regina Ragan
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Culture-free Diagnostics for Antibiotic Stewardship

2019 Spring Awardees

John Chaput
School of Physical Sciences
P(V) Reagents for the Scalable Synthesis of Natural and Modified Nucleoside Triphosphates

Albert Siryaporn
School of Physical Sciences & School of Biological Sciences
Benchmarking of a Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy Device for Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (FLIM-AST) of Clinical Samples

Brett Sanders
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Product Market Fit of Flood Hazard Data in the Facilities Maintenance Industry

2018 Fall Awardees

Mohammad Al Faruque
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Physical Layer Key Generation Protocol for Secure V2X Communication Architecture in the Era of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Ralph Clayman
School of Medicine
Development of a Novel Pressure Sensing Device to Determine the Force Applied During Ureteral Access Sheath Deployment

Enrico Gratton
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
A Particle-Sorting Device for the Separation, Isolation, and Enrichment of Particles at Ultra-Low Concentration

Abraham Lee
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
High-Efficiency Cell-Bead Encapsulation Platform for Droplet-based Genomic Screening

Chang Liu
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
A Platform Technology for the Rapid Evolution of Therapeutic Antibodies

Joseph Rinehart
School of Medicine
Closed-Loop Vasopressor Infusions: Peripheral Connectivity

Brian Wong
School of Medicine
Electrochemical lysis of FAT (ELF)

2018 Spring Awardees

Arash Kheradvar
Henry Samueli School of Engineering: Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering
Feasibility Studies of a Bio-Inspired Transcatheter Atrioventricular (Mitral and Tricuspid) Valve Technology in Sheep

Michelle Khine
Henry Samueli School of Engineering: Department of Biomedical Engineering
ASPIRE: Asthma Sensing Predictive Intuitive Respiratory E-alert Monitor

Harrison Lin
School of Medicine: Department of Otolaryngology
Auditory Neural Prosthesis: the Next Generation Cochlear Implant

Hamid Moradi
School of Medicine: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Developing a Treatment to Improve Survival in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

Bruce Tromberg
Henry Samueli School of Engineering: Biomedical Engineering; Beckman Laser Institute
Laser Scanning Multiphoton Microscope (MPM) for in vivo Clinical Skin Imaging

Hamid Djalilian
School of Medicine: Department of Otolaryngology
Clinical Investigation of a New Direct Drive Micro Hearing Aid: A Clinical Trial

Michelle Digman
Henry Samueli School of Engineering: Department of Biomedical Engineering
An Imaging Device to Assess the Developmental Potential of Pre-implantation Embryos

Catherine Loudon
UCI School of Biological Sciences: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Physical Insecticides: Entrapment of Bed Bugs

Rongshen Jin
School of Medicine: Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Novel Anti-cancer Biologics Targeting Wnt Signaling Pathway

Maksim Plikus
UCI School of Biological Sciences: Department of Development and Cell Biology
Stimulation of Hair Growth by Senescent Cell-Derived Factors

Kumar Wickramasinghe
Henry Samueli School of Engineering: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Rapid Diagnosis of Ocular Infections at Point-of-Care – Validation of Handheld ChAmpionSeq PCR Technology

2017 Fall Awardees

Aileen Anderson
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Title: C3a neutralization to target cancer stem cells and glioblastoma
An approach using C3a neutralizing antibodies for glioblastoma treatment

Christopher Hughes
Professor & Chair, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry School of Biological Sciences
Title: A vascularized tissue platform for personalized anti-cancer drug screening
Commercial development of a vascularized tissue platform for drug screening

Tibor Juhasz
Professor for the Henry Samuel School of Engineering and the School of Medicine
Title: Two-photon, non-linear corneal cross-linking for treatment of low refractive errors
Development of a device based off optical photodynamic therapy for vision correction applications

Mark Madou
Chancellor’s Professor for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering; Joint Appointee for Chancellor’s Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Chemical Sciences
Title: (Hummingbird) Rapid uropathogens identification and antibiotic susceptibility test for point of care applications
A cell phone and tablet compatible point-of-care system for bacterial and antibody detection

Athina Markopoulou
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Title: AntMonitor for mobile data transparency and privacy
A software tool to intercept network traffic in and out of a mobile device

Weian Zhao
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Joint Appointee Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Digital detection of pathogens in unprocessed blood using one-step blood droplet PCR
Prototype development of a one-step droplet device for amplification of nucleic acids

2017 Spring Awardees

Jeffrey Krichmar
Professor of cognitive sciences
Technology: an interactive robotic device used as therapy for children with developmental disorders

Kumar Wickramasinghe
Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Henry Samueli Endowed Chair, Professor of electrical engineering & computer science, Professor of biomedical engineering, Professor of chemical engineering and material science
Technology: a smartphone-controlled rapid DNA test

Aimee Edinger
Associate professor of developmental & cell biology
Technology: anti-cancer therapeutics

Elliot Botvinick
Associate professor of biomedical engineering, Associate professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, Associate Professor of the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology, Associate Professor of chemical engineering and materials sciences

Technology: an integrated diagnostic device for acute middle-ear infection and a continuous analyte sensor device to improve healthcare (two projects funded)

Anand Ganesan
Associate professor of dermatology, Joint appointee biological chemistry
Technology: small-molecule drugs to inhibit growth of early-stage melanomas.

Kenneth Shea
Distinguished professor of chemistry
Technology: a therapeutic bandage for treating venom-induced tissue necrosis.