Research on stroke, heart attacks wins IDEAs award

Oct. 12, 2021

Recent UAF biomedical research found that drugs may be used to control the metabolic rate in humans after cardiac arrest and stroke to improve survival and neurological outcomes. This groundbreaking research won the 2021 top IDEAs award. 

The Innovative Disclosures and Entrepreneurial Activities awards, hosted by the UAF Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization, recognize innovative solutions from  invention disclosures submitted from UAF and UAS for the academic year.

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In critical care medicine, patients are exposed to cold during targeted temperature management, now the general standard of care following cardiac arrest. However, exposure to cold stimulates metabolism and interferes with the therapeutic efficacy of targeted temperature management.

The inventors have discovered unexpected synergism by utilizing pharmaceutical formulations including three drug classes. The combination of the three drug classes show synergy in their effects on metabolic rate, heart rate, and blood pressure, to allow for more precise control of metabolic rate and core body temperature.

This innovation has been submitted as a U.S. provisional patent application through OIPC. The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

The IDEAs award winners were announced during an in-person and virtual September 28 ICE Jam innovation and entrepreneurship event in partnership with UAF Climate Scholars Program and Honors College. All IDEAs winners were recognized for their disclosed innovative approaches to research, teaching and service. The winners highlighted the diversity of disclosed innovations during the past academic year, 2020-2021.

This year始s winners are:

  • Commercialization Award (best overall innovation): Kelly Drew and Dr. Bernard Laughlin; 色视频下载淎nticholinergic Formulation and Method色视频下载
  • Inspiration Award (best faculty innovation): Geoffrey Wheat; 色视频下载淏orehole Sampler with SMA Trigger色视频下载
  • Creative Award (best staff innovation): Gabriel Dunham; 色视频下载淗ydrostatic Fuel Vent色视频下载
  • Tomorrow's Innovator Award (best graduate/postdoc innovation): John Harley; 色视频下载淪ocial Vulnerability Indices for 色视频下载 Block Groups色视频下载
  • Young Innovator Award (best undergraduate innovation): Russell Buckholz, Jason Gresehover, Michaela Jackson, Uziel Perez, and Cate Whiting: 色视频下载淒ynamic Arctic Wastewater Connection and Testing Rig色视频下载

Next year始s competition is already underway, so enter here. For more information, contact Peter Webley at pwwebley@alaska.edu.