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NIH challenge

NIH announced the Stage 1 winners of its Quantum Sensing Technology Challenge teams will receive $20,000 planning grant to further develop “new biomedical use cases of existing quantum-enabled technologies and to adapt and optimize them for use in biomedical research and clinical settings.” They will also be invited to participate in Stage 2 of the challenge to develop and test a prototype.

Stage 1 teams included:

• “Magnetomechanical Fetal Cardiac Imaging” Ronald Wakai, University of Wisconsin Madison

• “B-QuEST: Biomedical Quantum-Enhanced Sensing Technology” Prineha Narang, University of California Los Angeles

• “Quantum-Assisted Volumetric Imaging AppaRatus (QAVIAR) for Fast and Background-Free 3D Imaging of Whole Live Animals” Yun Chen, Johns Hopkins University

• “A Wearable Pediatric Magnetoencephalography System Based on Quantum Sensors” Svenja Knappe, FieldLine Medical; Amirhossein Ghods, Mesa Quantum

• “Quantum Tools For Retinal Disorder Characterization” Lead: Dmitry Pushin, University of Waterloo

• “Quantum-Correlation-Enhanced Multiplexed Imaging Platform for Single-Exosome Surface Biomarker Profiling” Pengyu Chen, Auburn University

• “Optical Frequency Comb-Based Breath Analysis for Lung Nodule Risk Stratification” Xin Yao, Flari Tech, Inc.

• “Solid-State Quantum Sensors for Magnetic Field Imaging” Farid Kalhor, FemtoSenseLabs, LLC

• “Multiplexed Biomedical Detection Through the Combination of Spin-Labeled Receptor Proteins and Optically Detected Electron-Spin Resonance With NV-Centers”Alexei Goun, Aperta Systems, LLC

• “Quantum-Enabled Metabolic MRI, Clinical Diagnostics and Monitoring – A Hyperpolarized [1-13C] Pyruvate Platform for Accessible, Real-Time Metabolic Imaging” Carlos Dedesma, Vizma Life Sciences

• “Rydberg Atom-Based THz Imaging for Disease Diagnostics and Molecular Characterization” Teague Tomesh, Infleqtion, Inc.

• “Quantum Flow Cytometer” Ivan Burenkov, University of Maryland

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