Student/Post-doc News

BME 599 Teams Awarded External Funds to Develop Prototypes

Student design teams from the BME 599 Graduate Innovative Design class have been awarded external funds to develop their prototypes. Two groups from the BME 599 class were awarded $500 (per group) from the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies Dare To Dream Grant Program on February 15, 2008.

Those 2 teams are:

Moduline
Daniel Greenwald
Jeffrey Meng
Auresa Thomas
Bryan Callow

Fontis Medical:
Matthew Gibson
Erin Purcell
Takashi Yoshida

The Fontis Medical group (from the BME 599 Graduate Innovative Design class) finished first place in the COE Center for Entrepreneurship Business Idea Competition. The group members will share the $1000 first prize award. The group also won a spot on the Bay Area Innovators trip in February.

Two teams from BME 599 won $500 Stipends from the BMEidea Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Award. Those two teams are:

NeuroSensor
Sean Xuan Li
Tia Chakraborty
Sunjay Dodani

Morphocor:
Kelly Lynn Baker
Chloe Marie Funkhouser
Heidi Nicole Howes
Christina Dahlin

One team was awarded $3,000 from the UM COE Center for Entrepreneurship:

Fontis Medical:
Matthew Donivan Gibson
Erin Kay Purcell
Takashi Daniel Yoshida

Posted on February 21, 2008, 12:00 am