五个研究团队获得了创意中心的资助
Office of the Vice Chancellor for 研究 awards will fund projects to improve health care and clean energy.
Five UNC-Chapel Hill re太阳城娱乐城 teams have received Creativity Hubs funding for projects that will make advancements in fields like health care and clean energy.
Awarded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for 研究 and supported this year by the North Carolina 合作实验室, 赠款提供1美元.87 million for the teams to execute their projects over the next two years.
“Through the generous support of the North Carolina General Assembly via the N.C. 合作实验室, we are able to award five project teams with seed funding this year – the most we’ve ever awarded in a single round,Penny Gordon-Larsen说, 研究副校长. “研究是创新的核心, 通过创意中心, we’re fostering a dynamic ecosystem where interdisciplinary teams are pushing the boundaries of knowledge to create incredible applications, 哪些是创造健康生活所必需的, 更可持续的未来.”
The Creativity Hubs program was developed by OVCR’s Office of 研究 Development to assemble teams of re太阳城娱乐城ers from diverse disciplines to tackle major societal challenges and leverage additional support from external sponsors.
“These projects are directly tied to the 合作实验室’s mission of funding re太阳城娱乐城 that addresses our state’s environmental and public health concerns,杰夫·沃伦说, N.C. 合作实验室执行主任. “通过整合顶尖人才和资源, we’re not only enabling the exploration of bold ideas and practical solutions that will have a lasting impact on our state, we’re also supporting the University’s commitment to moving applied science technologies into real-world applications.”
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以下是创意中心的五个项目:
人类MHC项目， 北卡罗来纳大学医学院. 目前, there is no affordable way to screen for proteins and antigens at the heart of cutting-edge cancer therapies. This team will revolutionize cancer therapy by the total sequencing of the major histocompatibility complex peptidome. The ability to understand what’s happening in a tumor cell could unlock foundational knowledge about how to target tumors therapeutically.
Precision-Guided Closed Loop Adaptive Ultrasound Neuromodulation, 生物医学工程系, 北卡罗来纳大学医学院, 北卡罗来纳大学谢尔曼药学院, 北卡罗来纳大学医学院, 北卡罗来纳大学文理学院. A team will develop technology for an AI-assisted ultrasound technology platform for certain neurological disorder therapies. 这种聚焦超声是无切口的, would not require anesthesia and could be done outside of a hospital.
自主生活疗法的扩展效果， 北卡罗来纳大学文理学院, 北卡罗来纳大学医学院, NC State University, Duke University. The team looks to develop ALTER as a living pharmacy – an implant designed to produce therapeutic antibodies in the patient, 在适当的时间，适当的剂量. This would eliminate the need for patients with chronic diseases to make recurrent trips to the hospital for injections or transfusions.
Advanced Medical Screening in Underserved Populations Using a Transportable Nanotube-Enabled Imaging System, 北卡罗来纳大学医学院, 北卡罗来纳大学文理学院, UNC School of 数据科学与社会. The team will develop an easily transportable system that will enable low-cost screenings for cardiac and pulmonary diseases at community gathering places, 企业，甚至病人的家. This will help rural and underserved areas, where health outcomes have trailed urban populations.
Advancing Solid Electrolytes for Next-Generation Lithium Batteries, 北卡罗来纳大学文理学院, Sustainable Energy 研究 Center. North Carolina is an epicenter of lithium mining and processing, which the team will leverage to establish the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Energy Storage. The center will bridge fundamental science with technology development in lithium-ion batteries and address some of the most pressing concerns for this critical technology.
