Past Awardees
Texas Health Catalyst supports researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs in accelerating the translation of innovations to health products. The following projects have been supported with Phase 2 funding awards. The list of Phase 1 consulting awardees is available upon request. Please email us for more information about any of the projects in our portfolio.
Devices
- Towards Clinically Accurate Continuous Blood Pressure Smartwatch Monitoring Using Equitable Bioimpedance Modality and AI
- Deji Akinwande, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Neelotpala Kumar, Graduate Student, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Solomon Leo, Undergraduate Student, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Neurawear: Wearable Brain-Computer Interface for Stroke Rehabilitation Anywhere
- Huiliang Wang, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Ilia Piatnitskii, M.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Ju-Chun Hsieh, Graduate Student, Cockrell School of Engineering
- AI-Facilitated VR-EEG System for Poststroke Rehabilitation
- Hongbian Li, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Hamidreza Saber, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Ann Majewicz Fey, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- A Smart Retractor Platform for Surgical Guidance to Prevent Mastectomy Skin Flap Necrosis
- Celeste Marsan, Graduate Student, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Jiaqi Xue, M.S., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Alexis Dimanche, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Device for Precise Pediatric Endotracheal Tube Adjustment
- Daniel Stromberg, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Sung Hoon Jung, College of Natural Sciences
- Wearable Sensing Device for Swallow Diagnosis and Monitoring
- Jonathan Chen, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Corinne Jones, Ph.D., Dell Medical School
- Wei Li, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Rapidly Applicable Neonatal Pulse Oximeter
- Iman Salafian, Graduate Student, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Christopher Klunk, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Christopher Rylander, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Personalizing Lower-Extremity Assistance for Individuals With Neurologic Disease Using an Adaptive Hip Flexion Exosuit and Predictive Modeling System
- Ross Neuman, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Nicholas Fey, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Intraoperative Assessment of Tumor Margins During Mohs Surgery
- James Tunnell, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Jason Reichenberg, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Matthew Fox, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Wireless, Tattoo-Like Holter Monitor
- Nanshu Lu, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Ultrafast Endoscopic Laser Cutting Tools for Precise Bone Reshaping and Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Adela Ben-Yakar, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Kaushik Subramanian, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Novel Postpartum Intrauterine Device (IUD) System to Reduce Expulsion and Better Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy
- Chris Rylander, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Yvette Williams-Brown, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Chris Idelson, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Long-Term Stable Single Neuronal Recording With Flexible, Fibrosis-free Electrode Design
- Chong Xie, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Robert Buchanan, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Hai Lin, Ph.D., Ascension Seton
- Tattoo-like Sensor for Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Nanshu Lu, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Joshua Chang, M.D., Ph.D., Dell Medical School
- Pulin Wang, Ph.D., Stretchmed
- An In-Vivo Laparoscopic Cleaner to Prevent Lens Fogging
- John Uecker, M.D., Dell Medical School and Ascension
- Chris Rylander, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Doug Stoakley, ClearCam Inc.
- Chris Idelson, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- BioBox: A Desktop Surgical Warm Body Simulator and Enhanced Laparoscopic Trainer
- John Uecker, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Chris Rylander, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Drug-Eluting Surgical Drainage Tubes for Enhancement of Patient Comfort and Reduction in Opioid Usage
- Daniel Stromberg, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Aaron Baker, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Flexible Drilling Device for Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery
- Farshid Alambeigi, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Transcatheter Repair Device for Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation
- Manuel Rausch, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Diagnostics Tech for Polyps and Colorectal Cancer
- Farshid Alambeigi, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Novel Neonatal Feeding Tube
- Alan Groves, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Christopher Rylander, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
Digital Health
- Deep Learning Methods for Real-time Adenoma Detection, Segmentation and Characterization During Colonoscopy
- Radu Marculescu, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Srinivas Joga Ivatury, M.D. MHA, Dell Medical School
- A Point-and-Click AI-Enhanced Digital Therapeutics Creation Tool With a Clinical Trial of Test Case 1: A Mental Health Intervention for Kids and Families
- Adela Timmons, Ph.D., College of Liberal Arts
- Matthew Ahle, CTO, Colliga Apps
- AI-Enabled Behavioral Health Coaching
- S. Craig Watkins, Ph.D., Moody College of Communication
- Kyle Cox, B.S., IC² Institute
- Matt Kammer Kerwick, Ph.D., College of Liberal Arts
- Josh Barbour, Ph.D., Moody College of Communication
- Sharmila Rudrappa, Ph.D., College of Liberal Arts
- Deborah Parra-Medina, Ph.D., College of Liberal Arts
- Katie Trainum, Ph.D. Student, School of Nursing
- A Digital Health Solution for Detecting Cognitive Impairment Early in Primary Care
- Robin C. Hilsabeck, Ph.D., Dell Medical School
- Maya Henry, Ph.D., Moody College of Communication
- Paul Toprac, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Paul Rathouz, Ph.D., Dell Medical School
- Jessy Li, Ph.D., College of Liberal Arts
- Joshua Chang, M.D. Ph.D., Dell Medical School
- Heather Cuevas, Ph.D., School of Nursing
- Teresa Coats, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Complex Clinical Scheduling for Patient-Centered Multidisciplinary Team Clinic Approach to Care Delivery
- Karl Koenig, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Jonathan Bard, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Douglas Morrice, Ph.D., McCombs School of Business
- Development of a Personalized Risk-Benefit Calculator to Enhance Shared Decision-Making for Patients With Osteoarthritis
- Kevin Bozic, M.D., MBA, Dell Medical School
- Karl Koenig, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Lauren Uhler, MPH, Dell Medical School
- Medpather: Real-Time Process Map Generation and Cost-Measurement System
- Brent Egeland, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Predictive Model and Clinical Decision Support for Medication Non-Adherence
- Tyler Gums, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
- Valerie Yuenger, College of Pharmacy
- Bill Tierney, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Rick Peters, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Sensor-Controlled Digital Game for Heart Failure Self-Management Behaviors
- Kavita Radhakrishnan, Ph.D., School of Nursing
- Christine Julien, D.Sc., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Smartphone Imaging Repository for Clinical Trial Management
- Truman Milling Jr., M.D., Dell Medical School
- Adrienne Dula, Ph.D., Dell Medical School
- Voice Biomarkers for Diagnosis of COVID and Other Conditions
- Jun Wang, Ph.D., Moody College of Communications/Dell Medical School
- Rosemary Lester-Smith, Ph.D., Moody College of Communications
- Edison Thomaz, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Solution to Enable Personalized Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Thomas Yankeelov, Ph.D., Dell Medical School
- Precision Oncology Matchmaking Tool
- Jeanne Kowalski-Muegge, Ph.D., Dell Medical School
- Qi Xu, Dell Medical School
Diagnostics & Imaging
- Diagnosis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (LVH) Using Frequency Domain Analysis of ECG Signals
- Dongmei Chen, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Wei Li, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Lin Wang, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- A Cost-effective Sensor for At-Home Monitoring of Heart Failure
- Richard Crooks, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Ian Richards, Ph.D., Interactives Executive Excellence, LLC
- Point-of-Care Nucleic Acid Diagnostic Device for Quick Detection of Pathogens
- Andrew Ellington, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Sanchita Bhadra, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Low-Cost Smart Intraoperative Imaging System (“MasSpec Pen”) for Laproscopic Endometriosis and Cancer Surgery
- Thomas Milner, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Livia Eberlin, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Jialing Zhang, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Michael Breen, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Arnold D. Estrada, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Non-Invasive Intraoperative Visualization of Cerebral Blood Flow During Neurosurgery
- Andrew Dunn, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Paul Toprac, Ph.D., MBA, College of Natural Sciences
- David Miller, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Ramsey Ashour, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Quick and Cost-Effective Diagnostic Tool to Measure Blood Loss During Hemorrhage in Low Resource Settings
- Sina Haeri, M.D., MHSA, Dell Medical School
- Thomas Milner, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Hector Torres, Hemorai Inc.
- Chiroptical Nano-Device for Rapid Determination of Molecular Chiral Purity to Facilitate Diagnosis and Screening
- Yuebing Zheng, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Zilong Wu, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Yaoran Liu, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Programmable Graphene Resonant Gas Sensor for Breath Analysis
- Michael Cullinan, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- David Cayll, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Preconcentrator for Detection of Volatile Biomarkers
- Tanya Hutter, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Tse-Ang Lee, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Ultrafast and Highly Reliable Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy for Tumor Pathology
- Tim Yeh, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Yuan-I “Nina” Chen, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Yin-Jui “Derek” Chang, Cockrell School of Engineering
- High-Resolution Imaging for Stroke
- Emily Porter, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Jared Culpepper, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Shwetadwip Chowdhury, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Wearable EEG Electrode System
- Huiliang (Evan) Wang, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Ming-Chieh Ding, M.D., Ph.D., Dell Medical School
Treatments
- A Novel Delivery Platform for Gene Therapy for Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
- Debadyuti (Rana) Ghosh, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
- Development of mRNA for the Treatment of Neurofibromatosis Type I
- Mohammed Maniruzzaman, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
- Jaidev Chakka, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
- Faez Alkadi, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
- Niloofar Heshmathi, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
- Karen Zhang, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
- Novel Conductive Hydrogel-Based Treatment for Accelerated Wound Healing
- Stephanie Seidlits, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Rebecca Duquette, M.S., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Drug Lead for Novel Mechanistic Approach to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Neurological Conditions
- Stephen Martin, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- James Sahn, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Dissolvable Thin Film for Storage, Transport and Delivery of Thermolabile Therapeutics
- Maria Croyle, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
- Platform to Develop Antibody Therapeutics by Identifying Disease-Relevant Antibodies From Human Serum
- Gregory Ippolito, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- A Biologically Inspired Platform for Antibiotic Discovery
- Bryan Davies, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Ashley Tucker, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Novel Platform of Well-Tolerated, MRI-Detectable Cancer Therapeutics That Target Drug-Sensitive and Drug-Resistant Solid Tumors
- Jonathan Sessler, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Jonathan Arambula, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Delivery of Neuropharmaceuticals to Bypass Blood/Brain Barrier
- Bryan Davies, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Colleen Mulvihill, College of Natural Sciences
- Novel Formulation of Antibiotic for Management of TB & Non-TB Mycobacterial Infections
- Ashlee Brunaugh, College of Pharmacy
- Hugh Smyth, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
- Omar Fuentes, College of Pharmacy
- Novel Enzyme-Based Cancer Therapeutic to Stimulate Immune Response
- Everett Stone, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Donjeta Gupta, College of Natural Sciences
- An Anti-PD1 Formulation With Increased Specificity and Reduced Adverse Effects
- Zhengrong Cui, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy and Dell Medical School
- Materials and Methods for 100% Post-Thaw Survival of Cells and Tissue After Frozen Storage
- Nathaniel Lynd, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Aaron Burkey, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Natalie Czarnecki, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Optimized Bioreactor With Integrated Nanopatterned Biofabrics
- S.V. Sreenivasan, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Raul Lema Galindo, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Marissa Martinez, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Mark Hrdy, Cockrell School of Engineering
Other Projects Supported
- Care Coordination App for Mental Health Clinics
- Kasey Claborn, Ph.D., Dell Medical School
- Avani Jhaveri, Dell Medical School
- Closedloop.ai: Leveraging AI to Improve Efficiency in the Processing and Interpretation of Data From Health Records, Sensors, Wearables and Other Health Data Streams
- Andrew Eye, CEO, ClosedLoop.ai
- Dave DeCaprio, CTO, ClosedLoop.ai
- Easy-to-Use Self-Care Tool to Inform and Empower Patients and Their Families
- David Ring, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Jose Colucci, Ph.D., Design Institute for Health, Dell Medical School
- Neurolex: Objective Vocal Biomarkers to Diagnose Mental Illness
- Jim Schwoebel, CEO, NeuroLex Laboratories
- Reza Ghomi, M.D., NeuroLex Laboratories
- A New Approach to Preventing Biofilm Infections by Rational Design of the Mechanical Properties of Medical Devices
- Vernita Gordon, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Novel Approach to Seizure Prediction Using High Frequency Oscillations (HFOs)
- Pradeep Modur, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Ahmed Tewfik, Ph.D., Cockrell School of Engineering
- Novel Urgent Wellness Care Model to Address Health Disparities
- Freya Spielberg, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Ofelia Zapapta, South East Memorial High School PTA
- Oxygenated Bandage to Prevent Scarring and Bacterial Infections
- Eric Frey, CEO, MedNoxa Inc.
- Evan Skowronski, Ph.D., MedNoxa Inc.
- Real Time Imaging and Live Brain Animation During Surgery to Map Brain Shift
- Jeff Levine, CEO, Advanced Scanners
- Aaron Bernstein, Ph.D., Advanced Scanners
- Lars Kuslich, Advanced Scanners
- Revealix: Improving Clinical and Economic Outcomes Associated With Diabetic Ulcers Using a Novel Smartphone-Based Point-Of Care Imaging Solution Enabling Radically Improved Early Detection Capabilities and Real-Time Alerting
- Adrianna Cantu, CEO, Revealix
- Drew Shah, MBA, McCombs School of Business
- Mark Lee, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Sensor Device to Monitor Vital Signs in Real Time
- Kurt Stump, CEO, Sempulse
- Mike Boyle, CSO, Sempulse
- Sean Bauld, CMO, Sempulse
- Smartshunt: Technology for Internal Flow Detection and Measurement in Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts
- Neil Shah, M.D., Dell Medical School
- vToner: A Tri-Modal Pubococcygeal Muscle Feedback Device for Treating Female Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Primarily Urinary Incontinence
- Greg Hoffman, CEO, Anatosol
- Targeting Glioblastoma Multiforme by Inhibiting Human Small C-Terminal Domain Phosphatases With Personalized Medicine
- Jessie Zhang, Ph.D., College of Natural Science
- Brenda Medellin, College of Natural Sciences
- Alternative Communication for the Suddenly Speechless
- Marissa Mery, M.D., Dell Medical School
- Lili Qiu, Ph.D., College of Natural Sciences
- Novel Safe, Rapid, Sharp Debridement Instrument for the Non-Surgically Trained Clinician and a Novel Extremity Irrigation Basin That Can Decrease Blood-Borne Pathogen Exposure to the Patient, Clinicians and Treatment Area
- Derek Denton, CEO, MDM Wound Ventures
- High Pressure Relief Cushion: Wheelchair Cushion Designed to Prevent the Incidence of Pressure Ulcers
- Harikrishan Sachdev, CEO, HiPR Innovation
- Reimagining Surgical Pathways to Drive Better Patient Recovery
- Brand Newland, CEO, Goldfinch Health