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2020 NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge Winners, Stage 1

NCATS is happy to announce the winners of the 2020 NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge, Stage 1: Planning Comprehensive Integrated Platforms.

See details about the ASPIRE 2020 Challenge.
*According to the rules for these ASPIRE Design Challenges, non-U.S. citizens and non-permanent residents were not eligible to win a monetary prize (in whole or in part).


Iterative Learning and Automated Modular Platform for Optimum Nonaddictive Analgesic Discovery

Gaurav Chopra              
Ram Samudrala              
R. Graham Cooks              
Connor W. Coley              
Panayotis K. Thanos              
Jun-Xu Li

Purdue University              
State University of New York (SUNY)              
Purdue University              
Massachusetts Institute of Technology              
University at Buffalo              
University at Buffalo

Accelerating Molecular Innovation in Pain through an AI-Driven, Human-Guided and Automated Open Drug Discovery Platform

Daniel H. Robertson        
Timothy I. Richardson        
Gaurav Chopra        
Richard M. van Rijn

Indiana Biosciences Research Institute        
Indiana University School of Medicine        
Purdue University        
Indiana University School of Medicine

Closed Loop Bio-Assay-Chemputer for Next Generation Analgesics (BioChemputer)

Babak Esmaeli-Azad       
Leroy Cronin       
Sara I. Walker       
Philip J. Kitson       
S. Hessam M. Mehr       
James Zapf       
Evan Snyder       
Larry H. Ellisman       
Shaochen Chen

CiBots, Inc.       
University of Glasgow       
Arizona State University       
University of Glasgow       
University of Glasgow       
Visionary Pharmaceuticals Inc.       
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine       
University of California, San Diego       
University of California, San Diego

Development of a Comprehensive Integrated Platform for Translational Innovation in Pain, Opioid Abuse Disorder and Overdose

Jeffrey Skolnick           
Andre Ghetti           
Nicole Jung           
Hongyi Zhou

Georgia Institute of Technology           
ANABIOS Corporation           
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology           
Georgia Institute of Technology

Biotech-in-a-Box, CDD’s Solution for Combating the Opioid Crisis

Barry Bunin          
Jacob Bloom          
Peter Gedeck          
Samantha Jeschonek          
Lawrence Callahan          
Christopher Lipinski

Collaborative Drug Discovery          
Collaborative Drug Discovery          
Collaborative Drug Discovery          
Collaborative Drug Discovery          
U.S. FDA          
Christopher A Lipinski, Ph.D., LLC.

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Last updated on October 31, 2023