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2020 NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge Winners, Stage 2, Milestone 1*

NCATS is happy to announce the winners of the 2020 NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge, Stage 2, Milestone 1: Prototype Development and Milestones Delivery.

See details about the ASPIRE 2020 Challenge.
*According to the rules for these ASPIRE Design Challenges, non-U.S. citizens and non-permanent residents were not eligible to win a monetary prize (in whole or in part).


Iterative Learning and Automated Modular Platform for Optimum Nonaddictive Analgesic Discovery

Gaurav Chopra 
Ram Samudrala 
R. Graham Cooks 
Connor W. Coley 
Panayotis K. Thanos 
Jun-Xu Li

Purdue University  
State University of New York (SUNY) 
Purdue University 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
University at Buffalo 
University at Buffalo

Closed Loop Bio-Assay-Chemputer for Next Generation Analgesics (BioChemputer)

Babak Esmaeli-Azad  
Leroy Cronin 
Sara I. Walker 
Philip J. Kitson 
S. Hessam M. Mehr 
James Zapf 
Evan Snyder 
Larry H. Ellisman 
Shaochen Chen

 

CiBots, Inc.  
University of Glasgow 
Arizona State University 
University of Glasgow 
University of Glasgow 
Visionary Pharmaceuticals Inc. 
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine 
University of California, San Diego 
University of California, San Diego

Development of a Comprehensive Integrated Platform for Translational Innovation in Pain, Opioid Abuse Disorder and Overdose

Jeffrey Skolnick 
Andre Ghetti 
Nicole Jung 
Hongyi Zhou

Georgia Institute of Technology  
ANABIOS Corporation 
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 
Georgia Institute of Technology

Accelerating Molecular Innovation in Pain through an AI-Driven, Human-Guided and Automated Open Drug Discovery Platform

Daniel H. Robertson  
Timothy I. Richardson  
Gaurav Chopra  
Richard M. van Rijn

Indiana Biosciences Research Institute 
Indiana University School of Medicine 
Purdue University 
Indiana University School of Medicine

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Last updated on October 31, 2023