2024 Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition Winners

The Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition was a tremendous success, showcasing an array of innovative submissions from talented students across the nation. Each project demonstrated creativity and practical solutions in biomedical engineering. Excitement filled the air as participants and attendees celebrated their hard work. Find out who won below! 

Chemical/Biological

First Place

SNIFF: Smart Neoplasm Identification by Fume Fingerprinting

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Felipe Andrade Villalobos (pictured), Maximiliano Mariné Durandeau, Rosario Willatt Contardo, Ignacio Moscoso Gutiérrez, Javier Castro Guevara 

Second Place 

Affinity.Bio: AffiBone - A Protein Codelivery System for Bone Regeneration 

University of Oregon - Knight Campus 

Jonathan Dorogin 

Third Place

Axcent: A Novel Approach to Neuronal Repair Following Ishemic Stroke

University of California, Santa Barbara

Nathan Nasseri, Anirudh Lahiri, Liad Habot, Faizan Azhar, Anant Somani 

Electrical/Computer Science

First Place

Aurora: the next step for in-vivo skin cancer diagnosis

University of Rochester

Bereket Temesgen

Second Place

HarVI: Virtual Intervention Planning for Coronary Artery Disease

Duke University

Cyrus Tanade

Third Place

Easyringe: Voice-Controlled Syringe Pump

University of Florida

Gabriella Flinn, Samhita Popuri, Cynthia Liu, Tanmayee Kolli 

Mechanical/Electrical

First Place 

Cornell DEBUT Phase 2B

SteadyStride:  The Self-Stabilizing Cane for Parkinson's Disease

Cornell University

Andrew D'Onofrio, Emma Weiss, Angela Altamirano, Veda Kam, Ally Schwartz, Nina Williams, Reza Ashrafi, Allen Tang 

Second Place

ARCOL: An Autonomous/Remote Control Operating Light for Optimized Surgical Illumination 

Texas A&M University

Carson Benner

Third Place

DermaVision Technologies: Portable Bruise Spectroscopy Across All Skins Tones 

University of California, Irvine

Gerald Lee (representing University of California, Irvine), Elian Lintag

2024 Special Category: AI/ML related to Treatment of Sport Injuries and Orthopedic Conditions

First Place

OsteoAssist:  An Opportunistic Screening Tool for Osteoporosis and Fracture Risk Analysis through Bone Mineral Density Prediction

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Sayeed Sajjad Razin, Farihin Rahman 

Second Place 

Knee AI Rehab Sleeve (KAIRS): A novel approach to post-op knee rehabilitation using AI

Chinmay Singh, Samanyu Dixit, Sahaj Sapovadia

Third Place 

Bioptim.ai

University of California, Santa Barbara

Anirudh Lahiri, Nathan Nasseri, Faizan Azhar, Bardia Khosravi, Liad Habot