An interview with Christina York, Founder and CEO of SpellBound.

SpellBound proudly reps Michigan as one of the state’s top mobile app companies!

SpellBound, an Ann Arbor-based augmented reality company, has received a $1.8 million fast track grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study opioid use in pediatric cancer patients.

The study will measure the effects of SpellBound’s augmented reality scavenger hunt, ARISE, on the length of hospital stay and opioid use by pediatric cancer patients after surgery.

As patients play with ARISE, they move around their recovery space to find targets, play games, collect creatures and gather treasure as part of an underwater story.

SpellBound was named as one of the 100 companies on CNBC’s Upstart list, an original list of the brightest, most intriguing, young startups promising to become the great companies of tomorrow.

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