Introducing Cohort 7

Jessica Rove, MD

Colorado Chest Tube

Juan-Pablo Idrovo, MD

Gastrostomy Tube Guardian

Rui Zhao, PhD

Developing a First-in-Class Allosteric Eya2 Tyrosine Phosphatase Inhibitor for Brain Cancer Therapy

Sujatha Venkataraman, PhD

Development of Gated Dual-antigen Targeting CAR-T Cell Therapy to Treat ATRT, an Aggressive Brain Tumor in Children

Zhirui Wang, PhD

Bivalent CD47 Immunotoxin for Targeted Therapy of T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Other CD47+ Cancers

Cohort 6

Daewon Park, PhD

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Email Address:daewon.park@cuanschutz.edu

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Tegsal is developing an antimicrobial polymer platform technology. They recently completed an NSF I-Corps cohort, which led to significant validation of commercial potential of their technology. Currently, they are investigating the applicability and impact of their technology across multiple clinical areas of interest, including as a multi-modal wound dressing prehospital trauma and combat casualty care. Collaborators: Luke Duncan, MS, MBA, Elizabeth Schiesser, MSc and Barry Marston

Learn more about Dr. Park

Cohort 5

Daewon Park, PhD

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Email Address:daewon.park@cuanschutz.edu

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Cohort 4

Daewon Park, PhD

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Email Address:daewon.park@cuanschutz.edu

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Meet our SPARK Fellows

Introducing Cohort 7

Jessica Rove, MD

Juan-Pablo Idrovo, MD

Rui Zhao, PhD

Sujatha Venkataraman, PhD

Zhirui Wang, PhD

Cohort 6

Daewon Park, PhD

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Cohort 5

Daewon Park, PhD

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Cohort 4

Daewon Park, PhD

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Cohort 3

Cohort 2

Cohort 1

CU Innovations

Meet our SPARK Fellows

Introducing Cohort 7

Jessica Rove, MD

Juan-Pablo Idrovo, MD

Rui Zhao, PhD

Sujatha Venkataraman, PhD

Zhirui Wang, PhD

Cohort 6

Daewon Park, PhD

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Cohort 5

Daewon Park, PhD

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Cohort 4

Daewon Park, PhD

Microbicidal Polymer Spray

Cohort 3

Cem Altunbas, PhD

Kimberley Bruce, PhD - PI

Tom Flaig, MD - PI

Jay Hesselberth, PhD - PI

Cristos Ifantides, MD, MBA

Kristi Kuhn, PhD - PI

Maria Nagel, PhD - PI

Devatha Nair, PhD

Zhirui Wang, PhD

Cohort 2

Ulli Bayer, PhD

Heide Ford, PhD - PI

Marsha Guess, MD - PI

Mingxia Huang, PhD

Robert Hodges, PhD - PI

Juan-Pablo Idrovo, MD - PI

Dan LaBarbera, PhD

Tim McKinsey, PhD

Andrew Monte, MD

Steve Moulton, MD - PI

Karin Payne, PhD - PI

Phil Reigan, PhD

Joshua Seinfeld, MD - PI

Kunhua Song, PhD

Mike Verneris, MD - PI

Cohort 1

Evalina Burger, MD - PI

Valeria Canto-Soler, PhD - PI

Michael Chapman, MD - PI

Michael Glode, MD - PI

Richard Johnson, MD - PI

Melanie Joy, PhD

James Lambert, PhD - PI

Shi-Long Lu, MD, PhD - PI

Max Mitchell, MD - PI

Jeffrey Olson, MD - PI

Mark Petrash, PhD - PI

Nicholas Walter, MD - PI

Martin Zamora, MD - PI

CU Innovations