I ended up being a finalist, so I get to go to the World Pitch event in August. I applied for the Technovation Challenge. Tell us about the Technovation C hallenge. Plus it will take an extra year or two of research before I can actually roll it out there. Business plans really take longer than you expect them to. I'm not really sure if I have an exact time frame. In my future plans, I'm looking at how protein levels differ… That's going to take a lot more extensive research. There's nothing you need to submit in the app. It creates almost a spectrum of what a sample would look like without addiction and what a sample would like with addiction.Based on where it is it can tell you if you're addicted to prescription opioids.Īt this point, it's all based on the sample you take. The device takes a picture…The app cuts that picture down to a region of interest and compares it to a set of pre-calibrated images. I'm taking that sample and putting it into my device. I'm adding a certain antibody and enzyme to a DNA sample, and it's telling me the darker the color is, the more protein is being produced, which automatically translates to the more addicted you are. There are a certain amount of opioids your body can't take in - those bind to this (mu-opioid receptor) gene and it produces even more protein than before.
How does your app detect possible signs of opioid addiction? I wanted to come up with a way to diagnose prescription opioid addiction at an early stage so you can take action earlier. It's scary to think it can happy to you without you knowing it. One of our family friends became addicted to prescription opioids after a car accident. I also had a personal connection with it. There were so many teens getting into prescription opioids, and before anybody knew about it, it was too late to do anything about it. That's really why Technovation has been really amazing for me because I can really explore the business side of things. My next steps are working on the side of things like portability, cost and starting to look at the business side of it as well. My goal for it is to be something that physicians can use to monitor addiction. It automates the immunosorbent testing part of the opioid addiction diagnoses process. It helps diagnose opioid addiction at an early stage.
“I wanted to come up with a way to diagnose prescription opioid addiction at an early stage so you can take action earlier.” “There were so many teens getting into prescription opioids, and before anybody knew about it, it was too late to do anything about it,” Rao said. Technovation is a program encouraging and assisting teams of girls from all over the world to solve problems within their community by developing an app, according to the challenge's website,. The prototype boosted Rao to be a finalist in the Technovation World Pitch Summit in Santa Clara, California, Aug. It is designed to work with a corresponding device that helps more clearly illustrate a patient's situation - how addicted he or she is to opioids.
Rao recently finished a prototype for a new app she developed called Epione, named after the Greek goddess of relieving pain. Now, Rao, a student at STEM School Highlands Ranch, is taking on the opioid epidemic. The 13-year-old from Lone Tree earned her claim to fame last year when she demonstrated her device, Tethys, on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." Fallon was awestruck as Rao showed how her device is capable of detecting lead in drinking water through an app Rao created.
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