Meet our SPARK Fellows

Introducing Cohort 8

Adam Green

Adam Green, MD

Device Development: Intact Pill Delivery to Patients Unable to Swallow

Development of a Device for Intact Pill Delivery to Patients Unable to Swallow

This project addresses the challenge faced by individuals, including young children and adults with neuromuscular disorders, who cannot swallow pills and therefore have limited access to necessary medications. The proposed solution is a novel gastrostomy tube device that allows intact pill delivery to the stomach, fitting into standard gastrostomy incisions and enabling the administration of pills through a thin-walled sheath. The project aims to finalize the design, conduct performance testing in the lab and animal models, and establish a regulatory pathway for the device through a pre-IDE meeting with the FDA, with the goal of delivering working prototypes, data, a finalized patent, and an IDE submission. Collaborators: Steven Lammers, PhD and Brian Huynh

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Cohort 7

Jessica Rove, MD

Jessica Rove, MD

Colorado Chest Tube

Juan-Pablo Idrovo, MD

Juan-Pablo Idrovo, MD

Gastrostomy Tube Guardian

Rui Zhao, PhD

Rui Zhao, PhD

Developing a First-in-Class Allosteric Eya2 Tyrosine Phosphatase Inhibitor for Brain Cancer Therapy

Sujatha Venkataraman, PhD

Development of Gated Dual-antigen Targeting CAR-T Cell Therapy to Treat ATRT, an Aggressive Brain Tumor in Children

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Zhirui Wang, PhD

Bivalent CD47 Immunotoxin for Targeted Therapy of T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Other CD47+ Cancers

Cohort 6

Adam Green

Adam Green, MD

Device Development: Intact Pill Delivery to Patients Unable to Swallow

Development of a Device for Intact Pill Delivery to Patients Unable to Swallow

This project addresses the challenge faced by individuals, including young children and adults with neuromuscular disorders, who cannot swallow pills and therefore have limited access to necessary medications. The proposed solution is a novel gastrostomy tube device that allows intact pill delivery to the stomach, fitting into standard gastrostomy incisions and enabling the administration of pills through a thin-walled sheath. The project aims to finalize the design, conduct performance testing in the lab and animal models, and establish a regulatory pathway for the device through a pre-IDE meeting with the FDA, with the goal of delivering working prototypes, data, a finalized patent, and an IDE submission. Collaborators: Steven Lammers, PhD and Brian Huynh

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Cohort 5

Adam Green

Adam Green, MD

Device Development: Intact Pill Delivery to Patients Unable to Swallow

Development of a Device for Intact Pill Delivery to Patients Unable to Swallow

This project addresses the challenge faced by individuals, including young children and adults with neuromuscular disorders, who cannot swallow pills and therefore have limited access to necessary medications. The proposed solution is a novel gastrostomy tube device that allows intact pill delivery to the stomach, fitting into standard gastrostomy incisions and enabling the administration of pills through a thin-walled sheath. The project aims to finalize the design, conduct performance testing in the lab and animal models, and establish a regulatory pathway for the device through a pre-IDE meeting with the FDA, with the goal of delivering working prototypes, data, a finalized patent, and an IDE submission. Collaborators: Steven Lammers, PhD and Brian Huynh

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Cohort 4

Cohort 3

Cohort 2

Cohort 1

CU Innovations

CU Anschutz

Anschutz Health Sciences Building

1890 N Revere Ct

Suite 6202

Mail Stop F411

Aurora, CO 80045


303-724-3720

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