A University of Kentucky surgery resident and researcher has been selected to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Regional Entrepreneurship Development (I-RED) Program.
This program is led by XLerateHealth, a nationally recognized healthcare accelerator based in Louisville, Kentucky. UK is the lead academic institution.
In partnership with UK through UK Innovate, eight innovators were selected across the Southeast IDeA State region. They make up the second cohort of the I-RED program, which is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Among those eight innovators is Brittany Levy, M.D., who is in her final years of general surgery residency in the College of Medicine’s Department of Surgery.
Levy is the founder of TalkiTourni LLC. She created an automated emergency tourniquet device with the goal of improving the rates of adequately applied tourniquets outside of a hospital setting. This project was also supported last year through the Kentucky Network for Innovation and Commercialization.
