Innovation Overground

Social distancing will not disrupt innovation! Join the Overground from home as they do their part to catalog how university innovation is addressing this historic pandemic. The crew discusses the multifaceted innovative response to COVID-19 coming from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, including a new approach to sterilize equipment using ultraviolet radiation, the early results of the Remdesivir clinical trial and a slew of other new inventions: face guards, intubation shields, aerosol mask filters, diagnostic kits and a COVID-19 screener app. Most importantly, learn the most comfortable (or maybe least uncomfortable) way to get a nasal swab! 

Featured Technologies:

UV cleaning technique (https://www.unemed.com/news/unmc-nebraska-medicine-reuse-ppe); Remdesivir trial (https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25531);

Intubation shield (https://www.unemed.com/product/intubation-box);

Infectious Aerosol Capture Mask (https://www.unemed.com/product/infectious-aerosol-capture-mask);

Infectious aerosol filter housing (https://www.unemed.com/product/infectious-aerosol-filter-housing)

mask filters https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25440;

diagnostic kits, https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25378;

COVID app https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25379;

3D swabs https://www.ketv.com/article/local-3d-printing-company-creating-nasal-swabs-to-combat-testing-shortages/32074029;

COVID-19 technologies for licensing (https://www.unemed.com/product-category/covid-19) 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

The only podcast brave enough to say with a straight face, “the gag of the electronic sphincter,” looks at how our government is using our veterans to make human-machine hybrids to help address the infirmities of the human condition. The Overground looks VA’ approaches that address urinary incomitance, neurodegenertive swallowing disorders and anyone confined to an iron lung.  

Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/smart-artificial-urinary-sphincter-to-treat-urinary-incontinence/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/microelectronic-throat-stimulator/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/3d-printed-artificial-lungs/; 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

It’s back: arbitrary rules, unfair standards, solemn honor, a giant fake sack of money – it's another pitch off! Join the Overground as they present two easy-button startups made from VA innovation... to our special guest judge, Emily Chen Newton of KIOS's Made in the Middle.   

Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/portable-pillow-embedded-with-sensors-to-collect-data-for-sleep-studies/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/self-leveling-walker-2/ https://www.kios.org/programs/made-middle 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

Join the Overground as theyexplore the amazing work of the VA in functional MRI and CT segmentation.  

Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/advanced-segmentation-techniques-and-computed-tomography-to-assess-and-address-brain-atrophy/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/functional-magnetic-resonance-imaging-software/ 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

The parade of VA innovation continues as the Overground tours innovations related to skincare. Learn how new technology from the VA addresses the horrific (and shockingly widespread) incidence of pressure ulcers. And another innovation find an interesting way to look at those hard-to-see places.   

Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/skin-screening-wand-camera/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/computer-based-system-for-highly-accurate-monitoring-of-pressure-ulcers/ 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

The next installment of the Overground’s tour of VA innovation visits new innovations in vision, beginning with diabetic retinopathy. The crew also looks at a new way to decrease the effects of eye surgery scarring.  

Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/goggles-for-diagnosing-retinal-disease/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/histone-deacetylase-inhibitor-for-improved-glaucoma-surgery-outcomes/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/guide-system-for-the-blind/ 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

The Department of Veteran Affairs, in addition to taking excellent care of the nation’s veterans, is on the forefront of healthcare innovation. Join the Overground as they ponder new drug targets to treat obesity, new mechanisms to regulate diabetes and the inner four-yea-old living inside every scientist.  

Featured Technologies: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/biomarker-for-early-detection-of-type-1-diabetes/; https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/composition-methods-prevention-treatment-diet-induced-obesity/ 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

The Overground wraps its series on shortages with dive into water. Only about 1 percent of the planet’s water is actually drinkable, and the number of thirsty people is only getting......bigger. University innovation to the rescue! With minimal heat new technology makes desalination possible using an elegant filter design. Come for the innovation, stay for the summary of the first act of Frozen, the polar sea currents and international scandal involving iceberg smuggling. It’s been a great series, gentle listeners. Which episode did you like best? 

Featured Technologies: Clean water crisis: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/; Mobile, solar water desalination: https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/bend-professor-awarded-million-for-drinking-water-project/article_a74283d0-23e3-5bfa-bc1b-b330199ed6c4.html; Apparatus for desalination: http://oregonstate.technologypublisher.com/tech/Apparatus_for_Water_Desalination    

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

The Overground interrupts its regularly scheduled program to take a closer look at academic innovations that could provide support and solutions to the novel coronavirus sweeping the planet.   

Useful links: https://nebraskamed.com/covid; https://www.biospace.com/article/moderna-s-coronavirus-vaccine-ready-for-clinical-trials/

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

The Overground gets kind of...gross. It's not every day that we learn the secret of turning lead to gold is...wait for it...urine. Also, phosphorus. We’re running out of phosphorus! University to the rescue! Wait. Did that say "urine?" 

*Note: The featured technology does not nano-bind Phosphorus, but instead holds the water to prevent phosphorus leeching.  

Featured Technologies: The world is really running out of phosphorus: https://cosmosmagazine.com/chemistry/the-world-is-running-out-of-phosphorus-and-that-s-a-really-bad-thing; https://patents.google.com/patent/CN106947157A/en?oq=CN106947157A; Phosophate recovery from water: http://www.ndsuresearchfoundation.org/green-technologies   

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/