BME News Highlights
Student HighlightsMarch 19, 2010 BME Design Teams win honors in business plan competitions
CervoCheck team members Karin Hwang, Chris Courville, Deepika Sagaram and Rose Huang. BME Design Teams recently have won several top honors in national business plan competitions.
CervoCheck, a method to accurately detect early indications of preterm labor, won first place at the University of San Francisco Business Plan Competition. They also placed third in the University of Louisville Cardinal Challenge Business Plan Competition. They also won Division II (life sciences) and second overall
of the IC2 Business Plan Competition. The project's sponsor is Abimbola Aina-Mumuney, M.D.. CervoCheck team members are Karin Hwang, Chris Courville, Deepika Sagaram and Rose Huang.
Cortical Concepts, a novel orthopedic implant for use in spinal surgery in patients with osteoporosis, won the Wharton Business Plan Competition, and placed second in the Cincom and University of Cincinnati Spirit of Enterprise MBA Business Plan Competition. The team members are Evan Luxon, Nicholas Martinez, Jason Hsu and Chris Komanski.
InSpiro, developing an inproved incentive spirometer, won Honorable Mention in the University of San Francisco Business Plan Competition.
Additional Information:
JHU news release
"Students design early-labor detector to prevent premature births" in JHU Gazette
"Hopkins students design device to prevent premature births" in Picture of Health
"Hopkins students design device to prevent premature births" in Baltimore Sun
"Hopkins students design device to prevent premature births" in WGMtv
"Hopkins students design device to prevent premature births" in KDVR
Posted: March 19, 2010
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