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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" A floating marina."
"Three yachts clubbed into one."
Albatross yacht is a 200m mega yacht that also features two skimmer yachts that are always ready to sail independently. This concept yacht takes privacy and functionality to a higher level,
We convert energy from waves into a potential energy ready for transportation or storage. Compressed air with which we can generate electricity. The by-products of our system are fresh water and cold air.
We have a design for a Simple Low Tech Rugged Portable Wave Energy Conversion Platform.
This project is developed to save human life, based on a friction safety system. In 2010 about 4,935 people were killed riding motorcycles of different kinds.
Smart cardiologist is an embedded system that performs acquisition of EKG and temperature, real-time signal processing on ECG, draws many important conclusions out of it, and then uploads the final data to GSM services and cloud services (optional).
An innovative air conditioning thermostat has been designed to use natural evaporation to reduce operating costs while increasing comfort.
There are currently two main types of air conditioner thermostats on the market today. Each has its drawbacks.
Why does every home not have a solar hot water heater? Indifference to energy usage allows people to plug in a hot water heater then forget about it. Electric costs are so low high cost solar panels cannot compete with John Q. Public - energy hog.
How would the world react if a news report was released involving 20 crashed jumbo jets filled with children? This hideous thought happens every day. However instead of crashed planes, this number is generated from the 6,000 children that die every day from a lack of safe drinking water.
We know, by specialized studies, that pollution is one of the biggest "cancers" of our economic development in the big cities, that kills thousand of people around the world.
This is a system that uses the internet to connect people and collect data without risking the exposure and misuse of personal information.
This is accomplished by storing all personal information in a "personal vault" which is a computing device that is locked down with a hardware key.
Project 180 Turn Around: 2015 Rebuild New Orleans is a project that interested me when Brad Pitt devised a restructuring housing program to help those who lost in New Orleans.
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