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April 10, 2008
William P. Jeffs
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
Report #J08-004
U. OF ILLINOIS-CHICAGO TEAM WINS FIRST NASA LIFE SCIENCE AWARD
HOUSTON ? A team of graduate students from the University of Illinois at
Chicago has received the first NASA Earth/Space Life Science Innovation Award
given at the 2008 Rice Business Plan Competition.
The $20,000 cash prize was announced April 5 at the 2008 Rice Business Plan
Competition Awards Banquet at the Intercontinental Hotel in Houston. NASA
sponsored the award in partnership with the Rice Alliance for Technology and
Entrepreneurship for this year's competition?the richest and largest business
plan competition in the world.
The team received the award for its HeartSounds platform technology, which can
determine heart sounds through a patch (operator independent) and wirelessly
record, transmit, archive and perform diagnostic analyses. It also can follow
pressures such as pulmonary artery pressure and may be adaptable to many other
pressure and heart rate analyses for monitoring of health parameters. The
technology could have future applications to inflight medical care systems.
"I've seen the need for this technology firsthand. As I did my rotation in
the (research hospital on campus), I saw how particularly relevant it was in
neonatal care, but there are many other applications that we are excited to
pursue," said team member Dr. Amir Bastawrous.
Nineteen executive summaries were reviewed for the award. The Space Life
Sciences Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston led the
evaluation for applicability to the space life science program. Judges
represented both the Space Life Sciences Directorate and JSC's Technology
Transfer Office.
The space life sciences criteria included elements such as relevance to the
health and performance of astronauts on long-duration missions, filling a
strategic need, providing Earth-based benefits and being innovative. Business
criteria also were used in the team's evaluation.
?The NASA Earth/Space Life Science Innovation Award will encourage development
of commercial technologies that can address the physiological, medical,
environmental health and human factors challenges of spaceflight. The award
will also increase the awareness of the contributions being made by the NASA
Johnson Space Center to the Houston region, and to the overall success of the
space program,? said Dr. Jeffrey R. Davis, director of the Space Life Sciences
Directorate at JSC.
?For decades, the NASA space program has been a source of technology advances
which provide benefits not only in space, but also on Earth. This award
continues that tradition,? said Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice
Alliance.
Teams considered for the NASA award were required to have a business plan
related to technology commercialization that has applicability to NASA's space
program in the area of life sciences with some type of application on Earth.
Examples include technology innovations that address bone loss and osteoporosis,
cardiac problems, sleep problems, radiation effects, muscle changes and
muscular atrophy, neurobehavioral and psychosocial factors, nutrition and
physical fitness and neurovestibular adaptation (balance disorders).
Business plans also could address smart medical devices, transportable
diagnostic devices, biomedical and environmental health technologies or human
factors technologies.
For information on the Rice Business Plan Competition and Rice Alliance for
Technology and Entrepreneurship, visit:
http://www.alliance.rice.edu/
For information on the Space Life Sciences Directorate, visit:
http://sa.jsc.nasa.gov/
For more about NASA's plans to send humans to the moon and beyond, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration
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