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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The selection of this project idea was primarily based on its dominant advantage over the existing unloading mechanism used throughout. In conventional tippers,unloading of raw materials is possible in only one direction(backward direction only). This conventional method has some practical difficulties. If the space available for unloading is less,
The OmniSign is the world's first all-in-one wireless vital signs monitor. It has the ability to wirelessly measure and record all four vital signs in one application.
A radical solution for aviation problems is here. Emerging beneficial technologies called flow-thrust technologies can be better avionics that aren’t understood today. Configurations making less drag need research and development before starting production. The aviation industry can be transformed by the technologies.
A polymeric film which can be transparent, semi-transparent or opaque, that consists of the polymeric film and a backing of some sort that adheres to the skin of the patient, but can be easily removed to reposition and re-adhered if necessary. The film, contains patient identification,
It is a talking calculator. It gives a voice output. Mainly useful for the blind and low vision patients. There is a voice for every operation on the calculator. The bright LED display will display the numbers and the result after the execution of operation.
Solar Transportation Technologies is developing a fixed guideway system for dual mode electric cars called Freedom Transit. The fixed guideway powers and controls the electric cars while in the system. The electrical power comes from guideway roof mounted solar panels generating approximately 3.8 Megawatts per mile.
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a boom and some start of the microcomputer business. The inventor went bankrupt after investing in producing electrical scooters, but the concept remains sound. In images you see his original invention, a Wireless Bluetooth keyboard, and a 'Rikomagic PC,
'Canard' airplanes have the theoretical advantage of all surfaces contributing to lift, thus a higher efficiency, higher payload possible for the same engine power and airplane size, and also that the stall of foreplane having a higher attack angle would put nose down, preventing main wing to stall,
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