National Academy of Medicine Archives - Page 9 of 11

Joy for People Living with Dementia using a Virtual Assistant

Lisa Fournier, Doctorate | Texas State University
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award year: 2021 “Joi” is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Virtual Assistant to improve emotional well-being and independence for people living with dementia (PLWD), especially those aging-in-place. A positive emotional atmosphere is important for PLWD to thrive…

Catalyst Awardee

Enabling Healthy Longevity by Investigating the Aging Extracellular Environment

Xi Ren, PhD; Albert Hofman, MD, PhD; Lewis Lipsitz, MD | Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award Year: 2021 When a car is zigzagging, it may be due to the car being compromised, or the road being slippery, or both. Aging…

Catalyst Awardee

Toward Safe and Independent Senior Mobility: Development of a supportive tool to self-assess driving performance

Kate Hyun, PhD; Seri Park, PhD | University of Texas at Arlington
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award year: 2021 The National Highway Safety Administration showed that the population of people 65+ increased by 32 percent from 2009 to 2018 while traffic crash fatalities of this age group…

Catalyst Awardee

Automatically Refocusing Reading Glasses

Konrad, Robert, PhD; Nitish Padmanaban, PhD; Kevin Boyle, PhD | Zinn Labs
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award Year: 2021 With age, humans gradually lose the ability to focus to near distances. By their late 40s, most people struggle to view objects within arm’s reach clearly, making it…

Catalyst Awardee

Affordable, Accessible Hearing Care for Aging Well

Carrie Nieman, MD, MPH | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Competition Sponsor: U.S. National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 Age-related hearing loss is nearly universal and is strongly and independently associated with negative outcomes in almost every domain of…

Catalyst Awardee

Anti-Aging Properties of a New Form of Non-Thermal Plasma

Benjamin Scherlag, Ph.D. | University of Oklahoma Health Science Center
Competition Sponsor: National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 Our recent experiments discovered that free water molecules1 (size, 2.75Å) passed through glass pores (8 -12 Å). When confined, the inherent kinetic energy of free water molecules reacted to produce plasma.…

Catalyst Awardee

App with AI for a Smartwatch and Smartphone That Detects Early Signs of Parkinson’s Disease

Igor Dzhekiev, Denis Gridnev, and Eugene Nikolaev | Insubiq Inc
Competition Sponsor: National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 An application for smartwatches that uses artificial intelligence to detect early signs of Parkinson’s disease such as initial tremor, dyskinesia, or other anomalies in the movements typical to Parkinson’s disease. To…

Catalyst Awardee

Automated Cell Profiling Platform for Anti-Aging Drug Discovery

Bianca Migliori, PhD | New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute
Competition Sponsor: U.S. National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 Age-dependent diseases are the leading cause of death and morbidity in industrialized countries. It is increasingly recognized that a more efficient strategy than targeting individual diseases will be to…

Catalyst Awardee

Can Hormetic Stress Increase Vagal Tone and Slow Cell Aging?

Elissa Epel, PhD, Wendy Mendes, PhD, and Aric Prather, PhD | University of California, San Francisco
Competition Sponsor: U.S. National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 There have been remarkable discoveries about life extension in lower organisms such as worms using hormetic stress. Hormetic stress includes short term moderate stressors…

Catalyst Awardee

CareBank: A PeerCare Platform Connecting Elders for the Pandemic and Aftermath

Claude Goodman | CareWheels Corporation; and Alan DeLaTorre, PhD | City of Portland, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability; Mark Leavitt, PhD, MD | CareWheels Corporation
Competition Sponsor: National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 Loneliness and medication non-adherence are public health problems unsolved by conventional interventions. Recognizing these problems…

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