Jason Germany was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded grant of $550,000 to research AI in medical technology. The project, titled “An Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled Multi-sensing Instrument for Parathyroid Detection”, involves a team of UW researchers including Germany, who is a co-principal investigator, addressing applied and pre-commercialization engineering research in medical technology. The project aims to eliminate complications of thyroid surgery by commercializing an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven, multi-sensor, tissue identification/confirmation instrument. It will also support and train graduate and undergraduate students working in an interdisciplinary team (engineering, industrial design, and medicine).
Germany was also recently awarded a CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund grant of $75,000 for the project “Emergency Airway Device”. Germany is a co-principal investigator. The CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund provides more than $1 million per year in grants of up to $75K per project team to move University of Washington innovations to the next stage of commercial development and investment.