Attention Undergraduate Students! Win $10,000 for Your Biomedical Innovation!
BMEStart Applications Now Being Accepted!
New this year, NCIIA's BMEStart Competition recognizes undergraduate excellence in biomedical innovation. The competition is open to all undergraduate student teams at colleges and universities, and students enrolled in senior biomedical engineering capstone design courses are especially encouraged to apply.
The deadline for applications is May 14.
Click here for the competition guidelines.
Stanford's 'Endurance Rhythm' team launches startup company
Over the past two years, the Endurance Rhythm team, an E-team out of Stanford University, has worked on patenting a micro-generator for electronic implants of the heart.
While in the phases of developing its technology for powering implantable medical devices, the team has launched a new startup company, Endurance Rhythm Inc, for its device.
“Although the grant has ended,” said project primary investigator Paul Wang, “The project is continuing. The grant helped demonstrate proof of principle and ready our project for investment/partnership, which we are continuing to very actively seek. The grant was incredibly helpful and an amazing help for our team.”
Learn more about Endurance Rhythm, Inc. Read about the micro-generator.
E-Team spotlight: Solar lanterns for Ghana
Since Fall 2006, the SociaLite E-Team has worked on bringing solar lighting systems to rural regions of Northern Ghana and Southern Rwanda. The current phase of the project is to sell their innovative solar lamp to villagers.
The team has recently seen its first sale in Tampaala where 25 lamps were purchased by villagers. “…they were highly motivated,” says Noble Ayikutu, E-Team member from Wa Polytechnic, Socialite's partner in Ghana. “They needed more.”
In addition, the team was able to visit other sites that may be able to use the solar lamp, including Bazeng and Namberg. Keep up with the project.
Open 2010, March 25-26, San Francisco
Open, the NCIIA's 2010 Conference, is seven weeks away!
Open 2010 will be our biggest and best conference yet, with 70 presentations, the new Spirit of Silicon Valley tour, annual March Madness for the Mind showcase, keynote speaker Doug Richard, and much more. You don't want to miss Open 2010!
Johns Hopkins’s student design teams seal a licensing deal
For the past two years, The Center for Bioengineering Design, a Course and Program Grant-funded initiative at Johns Hopkins University, has provided bioengineering graduate students the tools and support to develop new medical devices.
One of the Center’s team design projects was recently given a licensing deal with Seguro Surgical, a Maryland company specializing in the commercialization of surgical instrumentation.
“SeguroSurgical’s…product line (the Lap-Pak) was borne out of one of our design team projects,” says instructor Robert Allen. The Lap-Pak is a device that cleanly and quickly repositions the bowel during a surgery.
Read more about the project. Read more about Seguro Surgical.
'Open 2010' Keynote: Doug Richard
Doug Richard, founder of the School for Startups, will give the keynote address at Open 2010, the NCIIA Annual Conference. Known in the UK and the US as an outspoken and leading entrepreneur, Doug will address:
Why the public interest is best served by self-interest;
Why the most successful enterprises are all social enterprises;
Why entreprenuers are never born only made;
Why the US must learn to export entrepreneurship not merely to the rest of the world but the rest of the nation;
Why governments can only create playing fields;
Why capital is not what limits the rate of entreprenuership; and
Why universities are our best hope for cultural change.
Read more about Doug and Open. And, register now for cheap rates!
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