The 2024 Class of the Bridging Academia and Industry education program concluded in June with a project competition, where five teams of investigators pitched their challenge-driven research projects to teaching faculty and leadership from academia and industry.

The projects pitched this year included new strategies to address challenges in Alzheimer’s disease, wound healing, cancer, food allergies and substance use disorder.

After a lengthy discussion by the faculty judges, the team of Rachel Bennett, PhD, (Neurology), Matt Dubach, PhD, (Imaging), Asif Jamil, PhD, (Psychiatry), and Milica Margeta, MD, PhD, (Ophthalmology) were chosen as the winners for their project, Tauvision: Eyedrops for Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease.

The team received a one-year, $150,000 award (funded by philanthropy) to support future development of their project, which seeks to develop a non-invasive eyedrop-based diagnostic test for harmful proteins in the retina that may be indicators of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain. Learn more.

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