Dr. Darren Yuen, a nephrologist at St. Michael’s Hospital, won $250,000 at Angels Den 2024, a medical research competition, by showcasing the potential dangers of kidney biopsies. Using a balloon to represent a kidney, he demonstrated the risks of internal bleeding during the procedure.
Melissa Martin, chair of the St. Michael’s Foundation, right, with Dr. Darren Yuen, nephrologist and physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, left, and his lab partner Eno Hysi, a scientist at St. Michael’s, on Dec. 11, 2024. Yuen and Hysi are the winners of Angels Den 2024.Darren Yuen won $250,000 at the country’s biggest medical research competition this fall by showing an audience of 1,000 what happens when you fill a clear balloon with thick red liquid and stab it with a needle. St.
Michael’s Hospital turned showman to demonstrate the dangers inherent when a kidney biopsy – a relatively common procedure – goes wrong. As the needle hit the balloon, which substituted for the organ, a geyser of fake blood spurted into the air, simulating the internal bleeding that can put a patient in intensive care.Dr. Yuen delivered his show-stopping demonstration at the latest edition of a 10-year-old fundraiser called Angels Den. In 2014, the St. Michael’s Foundation launched the event as a way to urge donors to back the hospital’s research. The evening Stage presence and the potential to scale his lab project earned Dr. Yuen and his collaborator Eno Hysi seed money to build his invention, a non-invasive ultrasound kidney scanner the size of a cellphone. His next challenge is to join a growing list of Angels Den winners who turned their ideas of how to better deliver health services into promising Canadian medical businesses.the downtown hospital fundraiser has cracked the elusive code for turning what works in a lab into commercially successful companies. So far St. Michael’s Foundation has handed out $5.8-million to support 80 projects. The competition now takes place before sellout crowds in Toronto’s Koerner Hall, part of the, including Joe Mimran, founder of Joe Fresh and Club Monaco, and Mike Wekerle, co-founder and head trader of investment bank GMP Capita
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