Stony Brook Surgery Research Team Wins Venture Champions Challenge

A Stony Brook Medicine Department of Surgery research team, led by Associate Professor Gurtej Singh, PhD, has won Long Island High Tech Incubator's (LIHTI) Venture Champions (VC) Challenge in the Life Sciences category. The team's award-winning entry is a high-tech wound-care solution and advanced healing patch.

"Winning the VC Challenge feels like a launchpad for our vision," said Singh. "It's not just a win - it's a step closer to revolutionizing wound care with cutting-edge innovation." He further commented that this win will greatly enhance their credentials in future grant applications.

The VC Challenge seeks to identify cutting-edge ventures and serves as a launching point at the beginning of the development phase, assisting teams as they work their way through the commercialization process.

Singh and graduate student Shi Fu delivered the team's presentation, "Transforming Wound Care through Vascular Innovation." The team's product, which is currently in development, is an innovative solution for wound care and regenerative medicine, with burn centers, wound care clinics, and plastic and reconstructive surgeons as the main customers and the end users as patients with severe skin injuries, burns, and chronic wounds.

The team includes:

• Gurtej Singh, PhD - Faculty, Department of Surgery
• Alexander Dagum, MD - Clinical Advisor (former faculty)
• Duc Bui, MD - Faculty, Clinical Advisor
• Miriam Rafailovich, PhD - Professor, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering
• Marcia Simon, PhD - Professor, Department of Oral Biology and Pathology
• Shi Fu, BS - Graduate Student
• Huiting Luo, BS - Graduate Student

Read the complete article on the Department of Surgery blog.