HIT Fund Announces Cohort 2024-25 Awardees
Stanford’s High Impact Technology (HIT) Fund has selected 14 teams to receive funding and support to accelerate their transition from the lab to the marketplace as part of its Cohort 2024-25. The HIT Fund grants awardees up to $250,000 in funds, and provides business guidance and industry connections for Stanford researchers and entrepreneurs.
This new cohort addresses market opportunities with innovations in AI-based platforms, sustainability, synthetic biology, semiconductors, medical devices and diagnostics, cell and gene therapy, and therapeutics.
Airys: AI-Powered SaaS to streamline local government access to active funding sources for climate resilience. Investigators: Khalid Osman, Charles Shi, Shayana Venukanthan, Bhu Kongtaveelert, Madison Fan.
Breath-Based Detection of Bacterial Infection in Preterm Infants. Investigators: Janene Hilary Fuerch, Juliana Perl, Christopher Lyle Strand.
Composite blood-based biomarker analysis for accessible, safe and accurate food allergy diagnostics. Investigators: Sindy Tang, Nicolas Castano, R. Sharon Chinthrajah, Stephen Galli.
Development of Selective Cannabinoid Receptor 2 Agonists for Treatment of Brain Disorders. Investigators: Mehrdad Shamloo, Jennifer Sue Lin.
Ga2O3 Vertical Transistors for Power Electronics. Investigators: Srabanti Chowdhury.
A human skin organoid model of tissue resident immunology for screening and validating tissue resident immune modulating therapeutics. Investigators: Calvin Kuo, Mark M. Davis, Hudson Horn, Ana Jimena Pavlovitch-Bedzyk.
Low-cost conversion of agricultural waste biomass into stable carbon materials for gigaton scale carbon storage and net-zero coal. Investigators: Arun Majumdar, Yi Cui, Divya Chalise.
MagStone - Translation of a magnetic system for efficient kidney stone fragment removal during ureteroscopy. Investigators: Kunj Sheth, Daniel Massana Roquero, Joseph C. Liao, T. Jessie Ge.
Metasurface Oligonucleotide Synthesizer for Engineered Biology. Investigators: Jennifer Dionne, Punnag Padhy.
NatureAssets: AI-driven platform to simplify and scale private sector investment in nature-based solutions. Investigators: Gretchen Daily, Johanna Gertrud von der Leyen, Ruth Elisabeth Appel, Zander Galli.
Preclinical Assessment of Mitochondria-Rich Extracellular Vesicles from Erythroid Progenitors. Investigators: Phillip C. Yang, Yasuhiro Shudo, Gentaro Ikeda.
Prototype Development of a Passive Closed Loop Cooling Module for a 3 kW Server for Energy Efficient Data Centers. Investigators: Kenneth E. Goodson, Mehdi Asheghi, Daeyoung Kong, Heungdong Kwon, Yujui Lin.
Recovered Potential – Electrochemical nitrogen recovery from wastewater. Investigators: William Tarpeh, Kindle Williams, Brandon Clark.
Tapping into the Immunotherapy Potential of the Thymus. Investigators: Katja G. Weinacht, Wenqing Wang.
