MEDx Projects
MEDx offers a number of funding opportunities each year:
- MEDx Pilot Projects fund early-stage research for new collaborations between faculty members from the Pratt School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. Offered annually.
- Targeted Grants are co-sponsored by MEDx and other Duke organizations including the Children's Health and Discovery Initiative, the Duke Center for AIDS Research, the Clinical Translational Science Institute and the Translating Duke Health program. We invite campus organizations interested in co-sponsoring research or development grants at the interface of medicine and engineering to contact us.
- Kaganov Research Initiative provides funding for grants that focus on, or have relevance to, lung function or lung disease, especially pulmonary fibrosis. More info.
2021
MEDx Pilot Project: AI-driven drug discovery of P2ry14 antagonists against pulmonary fibrosis
Daniel Reker, ScD | Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Purushothama Rao Tata, PhD | Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care)
MEDx Pilot Project: Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Better Clinician-AI Communication in Clinical Mammography
Cynthia Rudin, PhD | Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistical Science, and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Joseph Lo, PhD | Professor and Vice Chair of Research for Radiology
MEDx Pilot Project: IntraVascular Membrane Oxygenator Whole Blood Proof of Concept
Marc Deshusses, PhD | Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tobias Straube, MD | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
2020
MEDx Pilot Project: mHealth Tympanometer: A Digital Innovation to Address Childhood Hearing Loss in Low Resource Settings
Susan Emmett, M.D.| Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
Mark Palmeri, M.D., Ph.D. | Biomedical Engineering (BME)
MEDx Pilot Project: Safety and Feasibility of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Enhance Auditory Rehabilitation in Cochlear Implant Recipients
Howard Francis, M.D. | Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
Angel Peterchev, Ph.D. | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Electrical & Computer Engineering
MEDx Pilot Project: Computational Localization of the Epileptic Focus for Resection Surgery
Saurabh Sinha, M.D., Ph.D. | Neurology
Warren Grill, Ph.D. | BME
MEDx Pilot Project: The AirFLO2 Device for Treatment of Hypoxemia and/or Tachypnea in COVID-19 Patients
Loretta Que, M.D. | Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Ken Gall, Ph.D. | Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS)
MEDx Pilot Project: Resorbable, Phosphorylated Poly(ester urea) Surgical Adhesive to Enhance Fracture Healing
Joseph Fernandez-Moure, M.D. | Trauma, Acute, and Clinical Care Surgery
Matthew Becker, Ph.D. | Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
COVID-19 Pilot Project: SARS-CoV-2 in Bioaerosols and Risk Assessment
Marc Deshusses, Ph.D. | Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Greg Gray, M.D. | Infectious Diseases
COVID-19 Pilot Project: Ultra-Sensitive Antigen and Serology Rapid Test for COVID-19
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D. | Biomedical Engineering
Chris Woods, M.D. | Infectious Diseases
COVID-19 Pilot Project: Smart Thermal Tracking to Guide Sanitization of Clinical Surfaces
Dan Buckland, M.D., Ph.D. | Surgery and Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Patrick Codd, M.D. | Neurosurgery
COVID-19 Pilot Project: CovIdentify: Using Wearable Devices and Smartphones to Detect and Monitor COVID-19
Jessilyn Dunn, Ph.D. | BME and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics (B&B)
Ryan Shaw, Ph.D. | Nursing
Given in partnership with Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute
MEDx Targeted Grant: Feasibility of 3D Shearwave Elasticity Imaging for Accessing Biomechanical Properties of Skeletal Muscle
Kathryn Nightingale, Ph.D. | BME
Lisa Hobson-Webb, M.D. | Neurology
Total funding: $50,000
Grant made possible by an anonymous donor inspired by the work of Lou DeFrate
MEDx Targeted Grant: Inductive Repair of Injured Human Kidney Tissues by Modulation of Mechanosensitive Pathways
Samira Musah, Ph.D. | BME
Rasheed Gbadegesin, M.D. | Pediatrics
Total funding: $50,000
Grant made possible by an anonymous donor inspired by the work of Lou DeFrate
2019
MEDx Targeted Grant: Utilizing Computable Phenotypes and Novel Methods to Identify and Study Patients with PAD at DUHS
Ricardo Henao, Ph.D. | Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Schuyler Jones, M.D. | Cardiology
Total funding: $100,000
Given in partnership with Translating Duke Health - Keeping the Heart Young
2018
MEDx Pilot Project: Smart Toilet
Geoff Ginsburg, M.D., Ph.D. | Cardiology
Jeff Glass, Ph.D. | Electrial and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Machine Learning Prediction of Pathologic Long QT-Associated Mutations
Ricardo Henao, Ph.D. | ECE and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Andrew Landstrom, M.D., Ph.D. | Pediatrics
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Automated Vascular Access for Resource Limited Medical Settings
Kris Hauser, Ph.D. | Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS)
Dan Buckland, M.D., Ph.D. | MEMS and Emergency Surgery
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Development of a Subcutaneous Cancer Vaccine Based on Thermoresponsive Biopolymers
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D. | Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Smita Nair, Ph.D. | Surgery, Neurosurgery, and Pathology
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Novel Implantable Oxygen Sensors to Predict Healing of Amputations for Rapid Rehabilitation and Mobility
Adam Wax, Ph.D. | BME
Leila Mureebe, M.D., MPH | Vascular Surgery
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Digital Biomarkers of Prediabetes and Glycemic Variability
Jessilyn Dunn, Ph.D. | BME and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Mark Feinglos, M.D. | Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: A Novel Approach to Intravascular Oxygenation
Mark Wiesner, Ph.D. | Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Travis Vesel, M.D. | Pediatrics
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Targeted Grant: Handheld Adaptive Optics Coherence Tomography for Imaging Individual Photoreceptors in Young Children
Sina Farsiu, Ph.D. | BME and Ophthalmology
Joseph Izatt, Ph.D. | BME
Total funding: $50,000
Given in partnership with The Children's Health & Discovery Initiative at Duke University
MEDx Targeted Grant: Next-Generation Electrode Arrays for Recording and Modulation in the Brain
Gregory Cogan, Ph.D. | Neurosurgery
Jonathan Viventi, Ph.D. | BME
Total funding: $150,000
Given in partnership with Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute
MEDx Targeted Grant: Development of a Multispectral Endoscopic Optical Sensor for Detection of Gastrointestinal Cancer and Dysplasia
Deborah Fisher, M.D. | Gastroenterology
Nan Jokerst, Ph.D. | ECE
Total funding: $50,000
Given in partnership with Duke Cancer Institute
MEDx Targeted Grant: Virally Produced Antigens for Nanomaterial-Based Influenza Virus Vaccines
Joel Collier, Ph.D. | BME
Nicholas Heaton, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Total funding: $100,000
Given in partnership with Translating Duke Health-Immunology
2017
MEDx Pilot Project: Next Generation Electrode for Megascale Neural Recordings
Nenad Bursac, Ph.D. | Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Kaufi Dzirasa, Ph.D., M.D. | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Novel Substrates of Mesh1 in the Stress Tolerance of Engineered Human Cardiomyocytes
Nenad Bursac, Ph.D. | BME
Ashley Chi, M.D., Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Photoaccoustic Imaging of Microvasculature in Cutaneous Small Vessel Vasculitis
Junjie Yao, Ph.D. | BME
Rambi Cardones, M.D. | Dermatology
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Generation of 3D-Vascularized Microenvironments to Assess Hematopoietic Responses
Jennifer West, Ph.D. | BME
Phuong Doan, M.D. | Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: The Development of a Platform Mimicking the Human Placental Barrier
George Truskey, Ph.D. | BME
Liping Feng, M.D. | Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN)
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Development and Validation of an Acoustofluidic Chip for Exosome Isolation
Tony Jun Huang, Ph.D. | Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS)
Daniel Stamer, Ph.D. | Ophthalmology and BME
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Recombinant Elastin-Like Polypeptides for Therapeutic Heart Regeneration
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D. | BME
Ravi Karra, M.D. | Cardiology
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Injectible Deposits of Unimolecular, Dual Incretins for Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D. | BME
Jonathan Campbell, Ph.D. | Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Development of a Defined Matrices for Lung Aveolar Epithelial Stem Cell Organoid Culture
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D. | BME
Purushothama Tata, Ph.D. | Cell Biology
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Targeted Grant: A Supramolecular, Self-Adjuvanting, Neonatal HIV Vaccine
Genevieve Fouda, M.D., Ph.D. | Pediatrics
Joel Collier, Ph.D. | BME and Immunology
Total funding: $60,000
Given in partnership with The Center for AIDS Research at Duke
2016
MEDx Pilot Project: Mechanics and Biology of Improved Tendon to Bone Healing
Shalini Ramasunder, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery
Jennifer West, Ph.D. | Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Rapid, Non-Invasive, Point-of-Care Cancer Diagnostic Tool
Jeff Glass, Ph.D. | Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
Brant Inman, M.D. | Surgery
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: High Intensity Focused Ultrasound and Immunotherapeutic Intervention for Destruction of Tumor Cells
Kim Lyerly, M.D. | Surgery, Immunology, and Pathology
Pei Zhong, Ph.D. | Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS)
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Microphysiologic System to Test the Tumorigenic Behaviors and Drug Responses of Skeletal Muscle Tumors
Nenad Bursac, Ph.D. | BME
Corinne Linardic, M.D., Ph.D. | Pediatrics
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Novel Catheter for Treatment of Hydrocephaly Using 3D Printed Polymers
Nandan Lad, M.D., Ph.D. | Neurosurgery
Ken Gall, Ph.D. | MEMS
Total funding: $50,000
MEDx Pilot Project: Miniaturized Aphaeresis Device for Research and Pediatric Use
Gowthami Arepally, M.D. | Hematology
F. Hadley Cocks, D.Sc. | MEMS
Neal Simmons, Ph.D. | MEMS
Total funding: $50,000