The Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition was a tremendous success, showcasing an array of innovative submissions from talented students across the nation. Each project demonstrated creativity and practical solutions in biomedical engineering. Excitement filled the air as participants and attendees celebrated their hard work. Find out who won below!
First Place
SNIFF: Smart Neoplasm Identification by Fume Fingerprinting
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Felipe Andrade Villalobos (pictured), Maximiliano Mariné Durandeau, Rosario Willatt Contardo, Ignacio Moscoso Gutiérrez, Javier Castro Guevara
Second Place
Affinity.Bio: AffiBone - A Protein Codelivery System for Bone Regeneration
University of Oregon - Knight Campus
Jonathan Dorogin
Third Place
Axcent: A Novel Approach to Neuronal Repair Following Ishemic Stroke
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nathan Nasseri, Anirudh Lahiri, Liad Habot, Faizan Azhar, Anant Somani
First Place
Aurora: the next step for in-vivo skin cancer diagnosis
University of Rochester
Bereket Temesgen
Second Place
HarVI: Virtual Intervention Planning for Coronary Artery Disease
Duke University
Cyrus Tanade
Third Place
Easyringe: Voice-Controlled Syringe Pump
University of Florida
Gabriella Flinn, Samhita Popuri, Cynthia Liu, Tanmayee Kolli
First Place
Cornell DEBUT Phase 2B
SteadyStride: The Self-Stabilizing Cane for Parkinson's Disease
Cornell University
Andrew D'Onofrio, Emma Weiss, Angela Altamirano, Veda Kam, Ally Schwartz, Nina Williams, Reza Ashrafi, Allen Tang
Second Place
ARCOL: An Autonomous/Remote Control Operating Light for Optimized Surgical Illumination
Texas A&M University
Carson Benner
Third Place
DermaVision Technologies: Portable Bruise Spectroscopy Across All Skins Tones
University of California, Irvine
Gerald Lee (representing University of California, Irvine), Elian Lintag
First Place
OsteoAssist: An Opportunistic Screening Tool for Osteoporosis and Fracture Risk Analysis through Bone Mineral Density Prediction
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Sayeed Sajjad Razin, Farihin Rahman
Second Place
Knee AI Rehab Sleeve (KAIRS): A novel approach to post-op knee rehabilitation using AI
Chinmay Singh, Samanyu Dixit, Sahaj Sapovadia
Third Place
Bioptim.ai
University of California, Santa Barbara
Anirudh Lahiri, Nathan Nasseri, Faizan Azhar, Bardia Khosravi, Liad Habot