Listed below are a few of the start-ups and their Carver College of Medicine founders. Innovation occurs in every department, and often across departments within both the college and university. Departments represented below include Anesthesia, Biochemistry, Internal Medicine, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology, and Radiology.
Advanced Biomedical Informatics
Founders: Hans Johnson, PhD; H. Jeremy Bockholt
Description: Enterprise informatics solutions for translational neurosciences
Advanced Endovascular Therapeutics
Founders: David Hasan, MD
Description: Stent coating to treat intracranial aneurysms without the need for plavix
Behavioral Diagnostics
Founder: Robert Philibert, MD, PhD
Description: Epigenetic approaches to drug testing for substance abuse as well as diagnosis of disease, consultation and psychiatric testing
Brain Image Analysis
Founder: Ronald Pierson
Description: High-performance assessment of imaging biomarkers for use in research and clinical trials
Direct Spinal Therapeutics
Founders: Matthew Howard, MD; Timothy Brennan, MD, PhD
Description: Medical device capable of controlling neural pathways within the spinal cord for pain relief, relief of spacticity and motor control
CE-HQ
Founders: Michael Kienzle, MD
Description: Point of care continuing education
Cellular Engineering Technologies
Founder: Alan Moy
Description: A biotechnology tissue engineering company
Clipse Therapeutics
Founder: Max Baker, PhD
Description: Buccal drug delivery device
Direct Spinal Therapeutics
Founders: Matthew Howard, MD; Dan O'Connell
Description: Pain management novel device called I (Iowa) Patch System to be implanted in patients to alter the functions of the spinal cord
Emmyon
Founders: Christopher Adams, MD, PhD; Michael Welsh, MD
Description: Discovery and development of small molecules to prevent and treat skeletal muscle atrophy, obesity and diabetes
Exemplar Genetics
Founder: Michael Welsh, MD; David Stolz, MD, PhD
Description: Porcine models of human disease including cystic fibrosis
Eyeprint Prosthetics
Founder: Christine Sindt, OD
Description: Ocular prosthetics
IDx
Founders: Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD; James Folk, MD; Stephen Russell, MD; Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD
Description: Automated disease detection for frontline care
Immortagen
Founder: Kimberly Leslie, MD; Baoli Yang, MD; Kristina Thiel, PhD; Donghai Dai, MD, PhD
Description: Personalized medicine for cancer patients through long-term tumor preservation, genetic analysis and clinical decision support
Infondrian
Founder: Junyi Xia, PhD; R. Alfredo Siochi, PhD
Description: Software solutions to automate treatment error detection and prevention in radiation oncology
InnoBioPharma
Founder: Zhendong Jin, PhD
Description: Discovery and development of novel anticancer drugs
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)
Founder: Joseph Walder, MD, PhD
Description: World's largest oligonucleotide-based reagent company specializing in sequencing, gene silencing, expression, monitoring and mutation detection. IDT has over 700 employees and is headquartered in Coralville, Iowa with facilities in San Diego, California; Leuven, Belgium; and Singapore.
Inverad Medical Technologies
Founder: Sandeep Laroia, MD
Description: Developing innovative medical devices for the modern medicine
iota Motion
Founders: Marlan Hansen, MD; Christopher Kaufmann
Description: Implantable medical device that enables remote advancement of cochlear implant electrode as hearing deteriorates over time
Iowa Approach
Founder: Steven Mickelsen, MD
Description: Development of medical devices needed to perform a pioneering catheter-based epicardial atrial fibrillation ablation procedure
MedFace
Founder: Randy Kardon, MD, PhD; Pieter Poolman, PhD
Description: Digital medical services, advice, monitoring, mitigation, and treatment of migraine, headache, photosensitivity, neurological, ocular and vision-related conditions
Medical Imaging Applications
Founder: Milan Sonka, PhD; Dan Liang, PhD
Description: Quantitative assessment tools for cardiovascular risk, atherosclerosis and osteoarthritis
Needle Eye Medical
Founder: Steven Mickelsen, MD
Description: Commercializing line-of-sight real-time imaging technology to reduce iatrogenic needle-stick complications, increase operator workflow efficiency, and improve patient satisfaction
Nuclease Probe Technologies
Founder: James McNamara, PhD
Description: Nucleic acid-based methods for rapidly detecting bacterial pathogens
Ohana Vaccines
Founder: David Lubaroff, PhD
Description: Prostate cancer vaccine
Predelix Medical
Founders: Gen Shinozaki, MD; John Cromwell, MD
Description: Delirium predication screening utilizing a simplified EEG device with spectrum density analysis algorithm
pxAlpha
Founder: Ryan Flynn, PhD
Description: Development of a device for delivering highly localized radiation doses to prostate cancer patients that are sculpted to avoid sensitive healthy tissues
SynderBio
Founders: Michael Henry, PhD; Sarah Vigmostad; Mike Cable
Description: Instrument to isolate and evaluate cancer cells
Talee Bio
Founders: Michael Welsh, MD; John F Engelhardt, PhD; Joseph Zabner, MD; Paul McCray, MD; Beverly Davidson, PhD
Description: Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy
Tansna Therapeutics
Founder: Max Baker, PhD
Description: Drug discovery and development for the treatment of seizures resulting from epilepsy or other central nervous system conditions
Terpenoid Therapeutics
Founder: Raymond Hohl, MD, PhD; David Wiemer, PhD
Description: Drug discovery and development targeting sterol metabolism for cancer therapy
VIDA Diagnostics
Founders: Eric Hoffman, MD, PhD; Geoffrey McLennan, MBBS, PhD; Milan Sonka, PhD; Joseph Reinhardt, PhD
Description: Quantitative pulmonary image analysis
Viewpoint Molecular Targeting
Founders: Michael Schultz, PhD; Frances Johnson, MD
Description: Development of injectable radio-pharmaceuticals for diagnosis and therapy for cancer, with focus on metastatic melanoma