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Home > Impact > Funded Projects > AICE Concepts – 2025 Recipients
The Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) – Concepts Program serves to advance early-stage health research and innovation that demonstrates high commercial potential in priority areas of precision health. AICE-Concepts enables innovators to accelerate their journey across four domains of commercialization: Product development, business readiness, product-market fit, and regulatory compliance.
The table below contains investment results for eight Alberta-based researchers and five Alberta-based small-medium enterprises. Total value for all 13 projects is ~$11 million with ~$6.9 million contributed from Alberta Innovates. Projects will run from September 2024 to February 2028.
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Hadis Karimipour, PhD, UCalgary
AI-Powered Autism Support System: Personalizing and Enhancing Intervention Strategies
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Tarek Bismar, MD, UCalgary
Establishing a Digital Pathology Platform to Infer Disease Progression in Prostate Cancer Patients Under Active Surveillance
Milad Nazarahari, PhD, UAlberta
MotionInsight: An AI-Driven Functional Assessment Tool for Post-Stroke Care Personalization at Point-of-Need
Daniel Charlebois, PhD, UAlberta
Machine Learning Driven Point-of-Care Test Device for Identifying Clinically Important Yeast Species
Pietro Ravani, MD, PhD, UCalgary
Implementation of KDpredict Clinical Decision Support Tool within the Epic System
Xuehua Zhang, PhD, UAlberta
Machine-Learning Assisted Ultrasensitive Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for Personalized Gout Management
Michael Asmussen, PhD, UCalgary
RunCanary: Your first line of defence against running related injuries
Garnette Sutherland, MD, UCalgary
IoT-OR – A Dynamic Database for Interconnected Surgical Theatre
Beam Medical Inc. Yannick Boutin
Chronic Low Back Treatment through BNV Ablation
Northernmost Medical Devices, Inc. Daniel Salamon, MBA
De-risk prototype for novel organ preservation and transportation
48Hour Discovery Inc. Martin Truksa, PhD, MBA
Radiopharmaceutical Diagnostic to Improve Immune Checkpoint Therapies
Olfato Wearables Limited Natasa Vretenar, PhD
Olfato wearable device for precision treatment of Parkinson’s disease
JB Music Therapy Inc. Jennifer Buchanan, MBA, MTA
Health & Life Sciences