The list below represents the 100 medical needs in the State of Arizona as prioritized by ACABI. Our teams distill each of these needs broad needs into a number of discrete elements that are then "churned" against a wide range of technologies within ACABI's Creativity Engine.
Unmet Needs List: Categorized
Needs of Everyday Life
- Portable, conveinance, long-lasting energy source.
- Avaialble Parking regardless of urban constraints
- Security of personal information online
- Affordable textbook access on campus for student
- Awareness of airport security checkpoint hold-ups before arrival to the terminal
Environmental
- Mechanisms that conserve water
- Low-cost Salt water purification mechanism
- Aircrafts that run on sustainable energy
- Widespread seawater farming mechanism
- Non-toxic mechanism to break down and eliminate waste
Healthcare: Treatment/Diagnostics
- Method to increase circulation in patients suffering from diabetic foot ulcers.
- Method of measuring blood glucose levels without penetrating the skin
- Early screening method for detection of pancreatic cancer
- Personalized pharmaceuticals that respond best to the given patient
- Method of drug delivery through the blood - brain barrier
- Treatment against drug-resistant bacteria
- Prolong/Slow symptoms of frailty due to aging
- Probiotic treatment for obesity that utilizes the patient’s microbiome
- Decreased probability of infection for open wound patients
- Ability to localize stem cells to the CNS
- Ability to control stem cell differentiation In the CNS
- Schizophrenia Diagnostic method that can be read by the neurotransmitter (seretonin) levels of the patient.
- Oral drug delivery in personalized (Genome specific) medicine
- Pharmaceutical cure (or treatment) for addiction
- Neuropathic pain management
- Cancer Rehabilitation procedure
- Organ transplant tolerance mechanisms
- Method to spontaneously induce clotting in hemophiliacs
- Non-behaviorist approach to psychiatric diagnostics
- Ability to stimulate growth in meniscus tears (cartilidge)
- Method of neurological inhibition to reduce phantom limb sensation symptoms
- Neurotransmitter measurement that is quick and efficient
- Permanent hair removal
- Maintenance of testosterone levels as men age
- Method of effectively treating open wounds from diabetes
Healthcare: Medical Devices
- More efficient prosthetic limbs
- Genomic Disease Detection device
- More easily understood mechanism of conveying medical information to patients
- More efficient blood flow in patients with vascular disease
- Better transfection systems
- Minimization of exposure to pathogens for healthcare providers (bacteria resistant wearable coats)
- Early detection mechanism for blood clotting
- Restless leg syndrome diagnostic mechanism/device
- Blood pressure measurement device on the go
- Detecting bone shifts following the insertion of a surgical plate
- Method to control the timing of biodegradation for biomaterials
- Personalized artificial immune cells for patients suffering from immunodeficiency
- Fortification for patients prone to herniated disks (spinal cord)
- Method of effectively treating open wounds from diabetes
- Ability to track the movement of a blood clot in real time