Seed grant request for proposals, news articles and more
NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2019
In this issue:
Request for Proposals - spring 2019 seed grants
News Article: "Accelerating Health Care Innovation by Connecting Engineering and Medicine,"an op-ed by center director Jeff Holmes on The Conversation
New Center for Engineering in Medicine brochure
News Article: "UVA Researchers Develop New Technology to Manage Cancer Pain" on UVA Today
Funded Research Projects: Fall 2018 Cohort
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
The Center for Engineering in Medicine provides over $1 million per year in seed funding to support the formation of new collaborations and launch promising new projects at the Engineering-Medicine interface.
The spring 2019 seed grant proposal submission period is now open. The deadline for proposal submissions is February 14, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.
The new center brochure is available online as a digital flipbook here or a pdf here. Please feel free to send this link to anyone who may be interested. Printed brochures are available by contacting the center at engineering-in-medicine@virginia.edu.
UVA RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NEW TECHNOLOGY TO MANAGE CANCER PAIN
EIM Seed Grant Recipients in the News / John Lach, Virginia LeBaron and Dr. Leslie Blackhall are working together to minimize cancer pain in the home. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)
As cancer patients become increasingly ill toward the end of their lives, their pain often intensifies and increases in frequency. This is distressing not only to the patient, but also to the patient’s caregivers, often a spouse or partner.
Effectively managing that pain with medications and other therapies is of utmost importance, but also difficult to accomplish for most lay caregivers.
The UVA research team, made up of Virginia LeBaron; nursing professor and cancer care researcher, John Lach, an electrical and computer engineering professor; and Dr. Leslie Blackhall, a palliative care physician, is developing and deploying an innovative, in-home system of wireless sensing technology that records factors that may contribute to increased pain. The goal is to better understand and ultimately predict the triggers and circumstances – such as stress, sleeplessness and various activities – that can worsen pain at different times of the day and night.
Computational Modeling and Voice Disorders New Engineering Protocol for Diagnosis and Treatment of Voice Disorders James Daniero, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology (UVA School of Medicine) Haibo Dong, Associate Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (UVA Engineering)
Electrical Engineering and Epilepsy
Imaging Seizure and Memory Engrams Daniel Weller, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering (UVA Engineering) Jaideep Kapur, Professor, Neurology (UVA School of Medicine) Cedric Williams, Professor, Psychology (UVA College of Arts and Sciences)
Implantable Sensors for Diagnosing Impaired Olfaction
Developing Compliant, Elastic Sensors for Spatial Mapping of Odor-evoked Response Potentials at Human Olfactory Epithelium Jose Mattos, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology (UVA School of Medicine) Liheng Cai, Asst. Prof, Materials Science & Chemical Engineering (UVA Engineering)
Big Data for Drug Development and Global Health Comparative Genomics of Pathogenic Cryptosporidium for Pan-genus Drug Development William Petri, Professor, Medicine – Infectious Disease & International Health (UVA School of Medicine) Jason Papin, Professor, Biomedical Engineering (UVA Engineering/UVA School of Medicine)
Tissue Regeneration and Muscle Atrophy Engineering Approach to Rotator Cuff Atrophy Brian Werner, Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery (UVA School of Medicine) George Christ, Professor, Biomedical Engineering (UVA Engineering/UVA School of Medicine) Thomas Barker, Professor, Biomedical Engineering (UVA Engineering/UVA School of Medicine)
Biomechanics for Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery Defining the Mechanical and Biologic Properties of Pediatric Cranial Bone Jonathan Black, Assistant Professor, Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery (UVA School of Medicine) Matt Panzer, Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (UVA Engineering) Patrick Cottler, Assistant Professor, Plastic & Maxillofacial Surgery (UVA School of Medicine)