A team of researchers from UC San Francisco, Vanderbilt University Medical School (VUMC), and Silicon Kidney are among the winners of the “KidneyX: Redesign Dialysis” prize competition for their design of an innovative, implantable hemofilter dialysis system that would enable patients to safely and effectively treat kidney failure at home.
Stanford Children's Health announced the winners of the pediatric medical device development competition hosted by the UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium (PDC). […] In a timed, Shark Tank–style presentation, 13 finalists from a total of 74 applicants pitched their pediatric device ideas—in various stages of development—to a panel of judges.
The UCSF Rosenman Institute interviewed UCSF-Stanford PDC PI, Michael Harrison, about his career in pediatric and fetal surgery and current research in device innovation.
Few medical devices are approved specifically for babies and children. An FDA grant to fund a collaboration between Stanford and UCSF for developing pediatric devices aims to fill the gap.
When Tom and Diane Fitch learned their baby would be born with a severe birth defect, they were devastated. But an innovative treatment at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco gave their daughter a chance at a normal life.
On Tuesday, November 14, the UCSF Pediatric Device Consortium (PDC) held its inaugural Pediatric Device Accelerator Pitch Competition at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. The competition awarded a total of $252,500, funded by FDA’s Office of Orphan Products Development and the UCSF Department of Surgery, to teams developing novel medical devices for children.
For nearly two decades, UCSF Bioengineering professor Shuvo Roy, PhD, William Fissell, MD, and David Humes, MD, have been developing an implantable bioartificial kidney as an alternative treatment for end-stage renal disease.
Adam Rao, UCSF medical student and UC Berkeley-UCSF PhD candidate, is developing Tabla, an affordable device to detect pneunomia in children. Using the "percussion technique" and machine learning, the device detects sound frequencies in a patient's body to determine whether the lungs may have fluid accumulation.
Tabla, a medical device used to diagnose pneumonia, was awarded top honors in the student category of Fast Company's 2017 Innovation by Design Awards. The low-cost device detects changes in sound waves during percussive physical examinations, providing a more accessible and affordable alternative to chest X-rays.
The UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium is funded by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Office of Orphan Products Development under grant no. P50FD007967.
