Congratulations to Our 2024 Grand Prize and First Place Winners!
NETrolyze, a novel immunotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), was named the $25,000 grand prize winner at a live finalist round held November 15 in New York. The first-in-class therapeutic injectable gel prevents the spread of TNBC, one of the most aggressive cancer types, enabling patients to avoid toxic chemotherapy and expensive treatments – potentially transforming their lives. Click here for the full list of 2024 winners. Also see the Top 100 highest scoring entries.
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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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Motion Sickness and spatial disorientation have been acknowledged as a widespread problem, affecting a significant portion of world population to varying degrees. Up to 60% of the population has some motion intolerance. The occurrence of motion sickness can approach 100% in cruise ship passengers on rough seas.
The Problem:
When you arise in the morning, you are usually woken up by an annoying alarm and sometimes you don’t wake up at all. Alarm clocks can be unreliable and rude. Your companion might scream at you for waking them with your alarm. The solution? Vibration.
Why?
The existing methods of electric power generation are not enough to meet the increasing demand of electricity. Most of the methods of power generation are either expensive or cause environmental hazards. This led us to think about low cost green technology for electric energy creation.
The SunLight Harvester
The SunLight Harvester is a Mobile Solar Electric Generator and Power Storage System.
The system is designed with two axes of rotation allowing it to track the sun from sunrise to sunset as well as curvilinear mobility to avoid the encroachment of shade.
The BABY IN-VEHICLE monitor is designed to make sure a baby is never left in a vehicle again. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the temperature within a vehicle on a 78oF day can climb to 100oF in just 3 minutes,
The mikes generally used in auditorium or hall have a very low range and makes a speaker restricted to the desk where it is kept, also is you are very nearer to it the beep sound irritates the ears of the listeners. The solution for this was Head Microphone,
The Portable Tracking Solar Generator is a sustainable energy innovation dependant on a computerized tracking solar cell array. It would benefit third world countries that do not have access to dependable electrical producing systems or the power grid.
The concept of this vest is to have a passive cooling system based on two phase changing heat transfer features; heat pipe technology for high level heat transfer and phase changing materials for heat storage.
The benefit of such concept is to have a passive cooling system,
Summary
A New Generation of Hydraulic Vibratory Pumps is a reliable, highly efficient, and low-cost hydraulic pump and sprayer, offered in several variants, that disperses fluids and liquids with high and low viscosities.
Purpose & Benefits• Dispenses water solutions,
1.6 Billion of people live in substandard housing, some in disaster areas, and others in countries less fortunate, most don't have a choice. I want to make a difference in getting people out of tent cities.
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