Thank you to everyone who attended the first event of our Innovate2Impact series on Tuesday, October 21 at Tufts University School of Medicine!
More than 100 researchers, clinicians, investors, students, and faculty convened at our Innovation Expo to discover emerging innovations and explore transformative health-related research.
Jonathan Davis, MD, kicked off the event by providing an overview of Innovate2Impact, and Kirk Taylor, MD, President and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, delivered a talk titled, “The Need for Medical Innovation & Scientific Research.” The Expo continued with six fascinating Lightning Talks and a Poster Session and a Networking Reception featuring more than 20 poster presentations and five resource tables.
Lightning Talk presenters shared innovations including an ingestible diagnostic device for IBS, an intervention to reduce cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients, smart microbes to direct high precision therapeutics to disease sites, rapid saliva diagnostics to detect stress and inflammation, focused ultrasound to enable cell-specific immune modulation in brain cancer, and an AI-enabled platform to more efficiently run clinical trials at scale.
Lightning Talk examples
PROT3EcT: Engineered Smart Microbes for the Targeted Delivery of High Precision Therapeutics to Sites of Disease | Cammie Lesser, MD, PhD
SalivaSens: Rapid Saliva Diagnostics for Stress and Inflammation | Atul Sharma, PhD
Poster Presentation examples
Next-generation LC Column Technology for Enabling Highly Sensitive Profiling of Amount-limited Clinical Samples | Alexander R. Ivanov, PhD
CardiacGPT : A Real-Time AI Assistant for Intraoperative Guidance and Postoperative DecisionMaking Support in Cardiac Surgery | Amin Ramezani, PhD
Advancing Web-Based Tools for Accessible Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment | Meredith C. Rowe, MA
Zero-Shot LLMs vs. a Validated ML Classifier for Neuroinfectious Disease Detection from EHR Notes | Karan Singh, MBBS
