{"id":18997,"date":"2019-08-26T06:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T10:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-ashley.cms-devl.bu.edu\/researchsupport\/?p=18997"},"modified":"2019-08-26T06:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T10:10:04","slug":"2019-ignition-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/2019\/08\/26\/2019-ignition-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2019 Ignition Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology Development is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Ignition Award.\u00a0 The Ignition program awards $75K, one-year grants to Boston University faculty to\u00a0<span>help launch promising new technologies into the marketplace<\/span>.\u00a0Congratulations to this year&#8217;s winners, listed below.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the BU research community can reach out to <a href=\"mailto:rkgupta@bu.edu\">Rana K. Gupta<\/a>, Director, Faculty Entrepreneurship, with questions or to learn more about the Ignition program.<\/p>\n<table width=\"920\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Victoria\u00a0Bolotina<\/td>\n<td><span>Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics (<\/span>BUSM)<\/td>\n<td><span>Gene therapy to stop or delay progression of Parkinson\u2019s Disease<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Steve\u00a0Borkan<\/td>\n<td>Medicine (BUSM)<\/td>\n<td><span>Treatment of acute kidney injury using novel peptides<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lauren\u00a0Brown<\/td>\n<td>Chemistry (CAS)<\/td>\n<td><span>Novel derivatives of an anticancer drug to treat malaria,\u00a0<\/span><span>a parasite disease that infects more than 200 million people each year<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"87\">Ji-Xin\u00a0Cheng<\/td>\n<td width=\"87\">Biomedical Engineering (ENG)<\/td>\n<td width=\"87\">A miniature wireless thermo-acoustic guide and augmented reality system for precise breast conserving surgery at sub-millimeter accuracy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Malay\u00a0Mazumder<\/td>\n<td>Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering (ENG)<\/td>\n<td>An instrument to minimize energy-yield losses caused by dust deposition on solar installations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ayca Yalcin Ozkumur<\/td>\n<td>Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering (ENG)<\/td>\n<td><span>An image-based biosensor for rapid, ultrasensitive detection and phenotypical characterization of pathogenic bacteria for sepsis diagnosis and management<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Roberto\u00a0Paiella<\/td>\n<td>Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering (ENG)<\/td>\n<td>A new camera technology featuring extreme size miniaturization\u00a0inspired by the compound-eye vision modality found in insects and crustaceans to address a wide range of emerging imaging applications including machine vision (e.g., for autonomous drone navigation), surveillance, endoscopic medical imaging, manufacturing quality control, and ophthalmology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Selim Unlu<\/td>\n<td>Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering (ENG)<\/td>\n<td><span>An optical sensing technology capable of multiplexed, label-free kinetic measurements that can be used to determine molecular binding affinities for proteins, nucleic acids, and other small molecules; adoption in academic and commercial labs could yield new diagnostics, better drug and antibody development, and new biological assays<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lawrence Ziegler<\/td>\n<td>Chemistry (CAS)<\/td>\n<td><span>An optically-based methodology for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing, providing better clinical treatment and improving outcomes for bacterial infections in humans<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology Development is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Ignition Award.\u00a0 The Ignition program awards $75K, one-year grants to Boston University faculty to\u00a0help launch promising new technologies into the marketplace.\u00a0Congratulations to this year&#8217;s winners, listed below. 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