Dr. Aenor Sawyer -- Space Health Innovator -- Joins the Center for Advancing Innovation

  • Dr. Aenor Sawyer -- Space Health Innovator -- Joins the Center for Advancing Innovation

Bethesda, Maryland Jan 5, 2021 (Issuewire.com)  - The Center for Advancing Innovation 501(c)(3) (CAI) is honored to welcome Dr. Aenor Sawyer as an advisor to our board. With over two decades of experience in health technology and a decade of experience in medical care in extreme and remote environments, she will provide valuable expertise that will further CAI’s mission of commercializing breakthrough technologies for good.

Dr. Sawyer, at UCSF (University of California San Francisco), is spearheading innovation in space health as Founder/Director of the UC Space Health Innovation Center, having spent 2 years as the Chief Health Innovation Officer for the NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH).

“I focus on the development and translation of novel evidence-based technologies at UCSF and collaborative institutions, with a particular emphasis on the incorporation of front-line innovation. Remote medical management as well as enabling precision health are keen interests of mine. I look forward to working with the CAI team and applying my knowledge to their creative efforts in transforming healthcare,” Sawyer said.

Founder and CEO of CAI, Rosemarie Truman, said, “The CAI team is looking forward to launching SPACE RACE II in collaboration with the UC Space Health Innovation Center at UCSF. Dr. Sawyer’s background in health technology, remote medical management, and space health innovation will further CAI’s novel contributions to the optimization of human health, on earth and in space. By facilitating the commercialization of innovative health tech solutions, CAI is poised to facilitate rapid development and deployment of technologies relevant to the medical complexities of long-duration human space exploration. Such innovations will also be of substantial terrestrial benefit in a multitude of remote and resource-limited environments.”

ABOUT CAI:

The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) is a global public-private partnership, non-profit focused on creating a virtuous circle of innovation and driving growth breakthroughs through novel, creative paradigms, and models. CAI’s mission is to accelerate and increase the volume of technology commercialization to ignite entrepreneurship, bolster the global economy, and maximize the potential of promising inventions. CAI’s award-winning challenge-based accelerator, rigorous evidence-based due diligence, and capital-efficient lean management models serve to hyper-accelerated “gazelle” high-performing startups for outsized investor returns. For additional information about CAI, please visit http://www.thecenterforadvancinginnovation.org.

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