Pilot Grants

SPADA, the Stanford Predictives and Diagnostics Accelerator, was established to assist interdisciplinary innovators in research, development and deployment of technologies that improve human health through disease prediction and/or diagnostics.

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Translating optical coherence tomography to diagnose Meniere’s disease

Year: 2015
Investigator: John Oghalai, MD, associate professor of otolaryngology

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Microendoscopic sarcomere visualization for the diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of ALS

Year: 2015
Investigator: Scott Delp, PhD, professor of bioengineering and of mechanical engineering; Mark Schnitzer, PhD, associate professor of biology and of applied physics

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Machine vision for broad microbial detection: A rapid and automated approach for identifying pathogenic bacteria through DNA melting

Year: 2015
Investigator: Samuel Yang, MD, associate professor of surgery

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Multiplex detection and sequencing of the viral repertoire in clinical samples

Year: 2015
Investigator: Curt Scharfe, senior scientist in biochemistry; Justin Odegaard, MD, PhD, instructor of pathology; Benjamin Pinsky, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and of medicine; Martina Lefterova, MD, PhD, clinical pathology resident

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Creating a $150 autism diagnosis

Year: 2015
Investigator: Dennis Wall, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics; Maude David, postdoctoral scholar in pediatric systems medicine

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Assessment and prediction of age-related macular degeneration progression through quantitative imaging biomarkers

Year: 2014
Investigator: Daniel Rubin, MD, assistant professor of radiology and of biomedical informatics; Luis de Sisternes Garcia, PhD in radiology; and Ted Leng, MD, assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Byers Eye Institute.
Journal articles:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25301882
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4237666
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25062439

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The diagnosis and characterization of major depressive disorder by applying machine learning methods to human neuroimaging data

Year: 2014
Investigator: Matthew Sacchet, graduate student in neurosciences; Gautam Prasad, PhD, psychology visiting scholar; Ian Gotlib, PhD, professor and chair of psychology.

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First in-human clinical trial of manganese-enhanced MRI (MeMRI) to assess peri-infarct injury

Year: 2014
Investigator: Phillip Yang, MD, associate professor of cardiovascular medicine; Rajesh Dash, MD, PhD, assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine; Dwight Nishimura, PhD, professor of electrical engineering.

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Development of non-invasive, laser-based breath-ammonia sensor for urea-cycle-defect diagnosis and monitoring

Year: 2014
Investigator: Gregory Enns, MD, director of the Biochemical Genetics Program and associate professor of pediatrics; Victor Miller, mechanical engineering PhD candidate; Mitchell Spearrin, mechanical engineering PhD candidate; Christopher Strand, mechanical engineering PhD candidate; Ron Hanson, PhD, professor of mechanical engineering.

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