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UNeMed’s presented the most promising inventions and startups of last year.<\/p>\n

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For just the second time in the event’s 14-year history, UNeMed recognized the efforts of 44 university inventors that created 28 new inventions related to the pandemic as the 2020 Innovators of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the UNeMed site<\/a>, most of those innovations focused on helping protect health care providers, and some were fast-tracked to market and used throughout the world. Finally, the award went to all UNMC and UNO faculty, students and staff who contributed a new invention related to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic during the fiscal year ending in 2020.\u00a0The Innovation Awards confer recognition for all UNMC and UNO inventors who, during the previous fiscal year, submitted a new invention, were issued a United States patent or had a technology licensed,\u00a0UNeMed reported.<\/p>\n

The Most Promising New Invention was the “Anterior Cervical Space Spreader,” a device born from the collaboration of surgeons Joseph McMordie, MD, and Daniel Sturdell, MD. Their device is new approach to c-spine retractors that could help future surgeons increase their access during complicated and delicate neurosurgeries.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by UNeTech, the Startup of the Year award went to BreezMed, founded by UNMC psychiatrist Stephen Salzbrenner, MD. BreezMed was founded on a software solution Dr. Salzbrenner created to help doctors and pharmacists better manage patient prescriptions.<\/p>\n

Other innovations included mobile applications to help track or screen the pandemic; new mouse models and assays to help improve study of the novel coronavirus responsible for the pandemic; solutions to personal protective equipment shortages; and solutions to limit the spread of infectious disease.<\/p>\n

During the 40-minute presentation,\u00a0UNeMed President and CEO Michael Dixon, PhD, said that the pandemic did not slow down innovation here; in fact, it added fuel to the fire. “We saw more than twice as many new inventions – 73 — in the last two quarters of 2020 (than the first), making it the most productive six-month span in our history.”<\/p>\n

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Big congrats to all inventors honored today at our 2020 Innovation Awards, especially our "Innovators of the Year," a group of 44 inventors who contributed new inventions & solutions related to helping fight the pandemic. @unmc<\/a> @UNOmaha<\/a> @u_nebraska<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/AgtqensiHj<\/a><\/p>\n

— UNeMed Corporation (@UNeMed) October 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n