Dr. Huiliang "Evan" Wang, an associate professor in Biomedical Engineering and a faculty affiliate of the Texas Materials Institute, was one of the fifteen recipients to receive the National Academy of Medicine's Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards. Dr. Wang will be awarded $50,000 in seed funding to support his design of wearable, non-invasive system for sleep enhancement.
His wearable and non-invasive system will be a more advanced version of his "MiniUlTra" he wrote about in his Nature Communications article from earlier this year, "Bioadhesive hydrogel-coupled and miniaturized ultrasound transducer system for long-term, wearable neuromodulation." The goal of the wearable device is to help people achieve healthy longevity through improved sleep.
The NAM's Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards "celebrate cutting-edge research and entrepreneurship aimed at advancing breakthroughs in the field of healthy longevity." This year's cycle, with a record-breaking 662 submissions, is the final round of the Catalyst Awards. Starting in 2026, Catalyst Award winners will be able to compete for the NAM's $1.5 million Grand Prize to further their work that was began under the smaller Catalyst Awards. You can read more at this year's announcement on the National Academy of Medicine's website.
