OCTRI funds 6 pilot projects for COVID-19 rapid response and digital health

The Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, OHSU Technology Transfer and OHSU Collaborations & Entrepreneurship have announced six awardees to two tracks of the Biomedical Innovation Program: COVID-19 Rapid Response and Digital Health.

The COVID-19 Rapid Response program awardees are:

• Albert Chi, M.D.: “OHSU 3D Printed CRISIS Ventilator”
• Bory Kea, M.D.: “Evaluating the use of brown paper bags for storage of limited re-usable PPE exposed to SARS-CoV-2COVID-19 Rapid Response”
• Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D.: “SARS-CoV-2 Nanobodies as Therapeutics Against COVID-19”

The Digital Health Program awardees are:

• Timur Mitin, M.D., Ph.D., and co-I Wencesley Paez, M.D.: “A Smartphone Mobile Application Using Artificial Intelligence for Pain Control and Management for Bone Metastases”
• Peter Schulman, M.D., and co-Is Peter Jacobs, Ph.D., and Stephen Heitner, M.D.: “Novel Artificial Intelligence Algorithm to Automatically Detect, Diagnose, and Determine the Severity of Cardiac and Pulmonary Disease”
• Ellen Tilden, Ph.D.: “Preventing Postpartum Depression: Combining Content Delivery and Data Capture”