Fall 2013: NYC, NY Cohort
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Winner: Team EndoInsight EL: Byron Smith PI: Pietro Valdastri About: EndoInSight is a disposable CO2 insufflation system for the colonoscopy market that will help clinicians improve patient outcomes while reducing procedure and recovery times. |
Spring / Summer 2014: Ann Arbor, MI Cohort
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Winner: Team Filtergraph EL: Dan Burger, Rachel-Chloe Gibbs PI: Keivan Stassun About: Filtergraph (ww.filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu) is a web application designed to flexibly and rapidly visualize large datasets. The user loads a dataset in a variety of supported file types into Filtergraph, which automatically generates an interactive data portal that can be easily shared with others. |
Fall 2014: Austin, TX Cohort
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Winner: Team PinPtr EL: Will Hedgecock PI: Ákos Lédeczi About: Cloud-based positioning system using our own patent-pending localization methodology and a network of stationary base stations. |
Fall 2014: Austin, TX Cohort
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Winner: Team VenoStent EL: Timothy Boire PI: Hak-Joon Sung About: VenoStent is designed to prevent intimal hyperplasia so that the initial coronary artery bypass grafting procedure is more successful and does not require re-do operations. |
Winter 2015: Berkeley, CA Cohort
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Winner: Team SMAC EL: Ekawahyu Susilo PI: Pietro Valdastri About: The STORM Lab Modular Architecture for Capsules (SMAC) is a modular open-source architecture for building capsule robots aiming to provide the users with a tool to shorten capsule robot design and development time. |
Spring 2015: Reston, VA Cohort
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Winner: Team INCA EL: Lara Jazmin PI: Jamey Young About: INCA is a software that enables Metabolic Flux Analysis (MFA). Metabolic flux analysis (MFA) allows for the determination of biochemical reaction rates inside of living cells, which are otherwise impossible to measure directly. Similar to how Google Maps reports traffic flows within highway networks, MFA can identify cellular pathway bottlenecks (roadblocks) and wasteful metabolic processes (detours) within biochemical networks. This information can be used to engineer improved production systems (e.g., host organisms and/or cultivation platforms) for use in industrial bioprocesses or agriculture. |