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UCSF Innovators win over $7 Million in FDA grant to advance medical device development for children!
UCSF Department of Surgery
October 17, 2023
UCSF Innovators win over $7 Million in FDA grant to advance medical device development for children! UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium (PDC) receives over $7M from FDA (P50FD007967), over the next 5 years, to facilitate development of innovative medical devices specifically for children. Hanmin Lee, MD...
Department of Surgery staff and faculty receive 2022 Chancellor Awards for Diversity
UCSF Department of Surgery
October 27, 2022
UCSF and the Department and Surgery are committed to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care. Chancellor Awards for Diversity Chancellor Awards for...
Surgical Innovations Annual Summer Retreat
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
September 23, 2020
Surgical Innovations (SI) held its annual retreat for the first time virtually on August 28, 2020. Participants were SI leadership, faculty, engineers, Biodevice Innovation Fellows, students, and other collaborators. Introductory remarks were made by the faculty directors Dr. Hanmin Lee and Dr. Shuvo Roy, who...
Surgical Innovations Welcomes Three New Biodevice Innovation Fellows
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
September 23, 2020
Surgical Innovations Welcomes Three New Biodevice Innovation Fellows Surgical Innovations welcomed three new Biodevice Innovation Fellows in July- Caressa Chen, MD (Loyola University Medical Center), Mohammad Karimzada, MD (University of California, San Francisco), and Young Lee, MD (University of California, San...
Three Surgical Residents Complete UCSF Biodevice Innovation Fellowship
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
May 26, 2020
Three surgical residents complete the UCSF Biodevice Innovation fellowship UCSF Surgical Innovations (SI) takes this opportunity to congratulate three fellows – Vamsi K Aribindi, MD (Baylor College of Medicine), Rebecca C. Gologorsky, MD (UCSF East Bay Residency Program) and Phillip Kim, MD, MBA (Columbia...
Research Team Awarded Grant for Novel Medical Device to Treat Recurrent Stomal Prolapse
UCSF Pediatric Surgery
May 08, 2020
A research team including UCSF pediatric surgeons Dr. Olajire Idowu and Dr. Sunghoon Kim has been awarded a grant to support commercialization of the "Prolapse Whisperer", a novel medical device to treat and prevent recurrent stomal prolapse. Stomal prolapse occurs when the bowel near the stoma, a surgically...
Pediatric Device Accelerator 2020 competition awardees
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
April 03, 2020
On March 30, 2020, 10 finalists virtually pitched their pediatric device ideas to a panel of judges at the UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Accelerator Shark Tank pitch competition for a chance to win up to $50,000, prototyping support, and customized advising. Congratulations to the awardees, and special thanks to...
Nature News Feature: How Artificial Kidneys and Miniaturized Dialysis Could Save Millions of Lives
Nature News Feature
March 17, 2020
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, have bypassed external devices and instead focused on developing a kidney prototype that they hope will one day be surgically implanted into a patient’s body. It wouldn’t require a pump because it...
UCSF Surgical Innovations Team Reports Clinical Milestone in Development of Implantable Bioartificial Kidney at Kidney Week 2019
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
December 16, 2019
The Kidney Project, a national effort to develop an implantable bioartificial kidney that could eliminate the need for dialysis, announced a key milestone in a November 7 presentation at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2019 conference in Washington, DC. The project team reported that UC San...
The Kidney Project Earns Kidneyx Award to Make Home Dialysis Better for Patients
UCSF School of Pharmacy
May 02, 2019
As one of 15 inaugural winners of the KidneyX Redesign Dialysis Phase I competition, announced April 29, 2019 in Washington DC, a team led by UCSF's Shuvo Roy, PhD, and VUMC nephrologist William Fissell, MD, will receive $75,000 to accelerate the development of their proposed implantable dialysis device. More...
Julius Guccione, Jr., PhD Inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows
UCSF Surgical Innovations and Cardiac Biomechanics Lab
March 27, 2019
Julius Guccione, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Surgery and Co-Director of the UCSF Cardiac Biomechanics Lab, was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering ( AIMBE) College of Fellows at its annual meeting in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. Guccione was one of four UCSF faculty...
FDA Awards UCSF and Stanford 5-year $6.7M P50 Pediatric Device Consortia (PDC) Grant
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
August 31, 2018
Michael Harrison, MD, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Shuvo Roy, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences at UCSF, and James Wall, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Stanford...
Surgical Innovations and TheraNova Forge Partnership to Speed MedTech Devices to Market
UCSF Surgical Innovations
June 18, 2018
UCSF Surgical Innovations and San Francisco-based medical device developer TheraNova have formed a partnership that will allow for co-development of medical device technologies between them . UCSF innovators will now have a streamlined mechanism to collaborate with TheraNova engineers, which will help speed...
Turning Surgeons Into Innovators Without Taking Them Out of the OR
UCSF Surgical Innovations
June 06, 2018
Academic hospitals have all the makings for rich medical device development. They have physicians to identify surgical needs, researchers to test theories, bioengineers to design and create devices and patients to participate in clinical trials. However, the disconnect between engineering and surgical departments...
Surgical Innovations Hosts Symposium Uniting Partners Around Children's Health
UCSF Surgical Innovations
May 22, 2018
On May 17, the Second Annual UCSF Engineering for Children’s Health Symposium was held at Mission Bay Conference Center. Over one hundred clinicians, engineers, scientists, administrators, industry professionals, and government partners gathered to discuss groundbreaking research and developing technologies in...
Department of Surgery Ranks 3rd Nationally in NIH Funding for Surgery Category - Three Surgeon-Scientists Rank in Top 20
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 27, 2018
The UCSF Department of Surgery now ranks No. 3 nationally in NIH research funding among all academic surgery programs, a stunning rise from 6th the last time the survey was done. Three Department of Surgery faculty also ranked in the top 20 of all NIH-funded principal investigators nationally in the category of...