Arizona 100 Unmet Needs
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