The HMS scientist behind a new, safer version of the hypodermic needle has won an award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation to fund commercial development.
Jeffrey Karp, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is working on a mechanical, “clutch-based” needle. His innovation lowers the risk that an injection might miss its target or penetrate too deeply, particularly useful for dialysis patients and others who use needles regularly.
The design was selected for a Phase I Coulter Translational Research Award by a committee of venture capitalists, industry representatives, clinicians and experts in technology transfer.
The Coulter Translational Research Awards program supports work by assistant professors in biomedical engineering departments in the United States. The award funds promising technologies with the goal of ushering them into clinical practice.
