Accuo (formerly EchoSpine) has won a Stage 2 Award from VentureWell for $20,000. This funding will support validation of their business model as the continue to refine their technology to enable high-quality ultrasound imaging from a tiny lumbar puncture needle. The undergraduate team is advised by Drs. Durr, Boctor, and Moghekar.
Congratulations to Team Kubanda for winning third place in the 2016 National Collegiate Inventors Competition. The Hub has a story on their work here and the National Inventors Hall of Fame details their entry here. The undergraduate team is mentored by Drs. Durr and Harvey and funded by CBID and a grant from Under Armour.
Team Kubanda–an undergraduate design team developing a cryotherapy technique for non-surgical breast cancer treatment in low-resource settings, is a finalist in the Collegiate Inventors Competition. The Hub issued a press release on their achievement today. Good luck!
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded Prof. Acharya funding for his CBID project on monitoring the vector for Zika through cloud-connected ovitraps. VectorWEB is one of 21 projects funded out of over 900 submissions from around the world. Congrats Prof. Acharya!
DT11 from 2015-2016, led by Nisu Patel, has been awarded a seed grant from the Coulter Foundation for improving deep needle placement. Drs. Durr and Moghekar are the PIs.
Join us for Design Day tomorrow at 1pm!
More information here: http://cbid.bme.jhu.edu/news-events/design-day/
News story here: http://hub.jhu.edu/2016/05/02/engineering-design-days-2016
What:
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID) and Jhpiego invite you to take part in a weekend design challenge to focus in the prevention of mosquito bites in an effort to reduce the spread of the Zika virus. Despite significant efforts and technological advancements, mosquitos continue to pose considerable public health problems across wide geographical areas. The public health cost is enormous. There is a recent associating between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in infants born to women infected during pregnancy and Guillain-Barre syndrome in Zika-infected individuals.
New ideas and designs can help save lives. YOU can […]
CBID will host a JHU-wide competition for undergraduate and graduate students involved in medtech design. Details are here.
Come visit the Molecular-Guided Surgery Conference at Photonics West to hear about new techniques for molecular imaging.
Dr. Durr and Dr. Susan Harvey were awarded a $100k Under Armour Innovation Award to fund the work of Design Team 9 in developing a low-cost cryotherapy system for breast cancer treatment in low-resource settings. The grant comes from The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins and Under Armour. Design Team 9 is lead by Monica Rex.