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The BMES ERC Industry division brings national and international business leaders and their companies together with BMES ERC physicians, scientists and researchers to create innovative solutions to unmet medical and biomedical needs. We provide a broad range of services to Industry including basic science research, fundamental engineering design, prototype development, small feasibility animal trials, large scale randomized animal trials, as well as IRB approved human trials. The BMES ERC’s highly integrated collaborative structure has scientists and engineers working across 18 disciplines ranging from ophthalmology to non-linear modeling to neural integration to electrochemistry. By utilizing the BMES ERC’s fluid operation from concept to production, our corporate partners outpace the competition in rapidly producing revolutionary advances in basic science and development of next-generation products.
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"Initiate your Idea in Medicine & Engineering"
The Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems (BMES) Engineering Research Center of the University of Southern California, in collaboration with the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center of the US Army and the Henry Jackson Foundation are announcing a request for innovative ideas from multidisciplinary teams of students that broadly relate to innovative medical research for the wartime soldier or tactical team. Each proposal is to identify a near term medical technology to help today’s modern wartime soldier, surgeon, nurse or other. Medical opportunities with applications relevant to the military that either utilize existing technologies or propose the development of new technologies that will solve an unmet need in medicine today and that will lead to products in the near future.
Update as of Monday May, 12th, 2008
The caliber of all proposals submitted to the Medical Engineering Innovation Challenge was outstanding and the judges were very impressed by your proposals' breadth, quality and applicability to military medicine. We had 11 judges from some of this nation's largest and most successful corporations (AMO, B&L, Eli Lilly, Medtronic, Reichert, and Texas Instruments) and 5 judges from the U.S. military (Army, Navy and TATRC**) review your proposals and they were extremely challenged to narrow the field to just 6 finalists. Congratulations to all of you for your hard work, dedication and entrepreneurial spirit!
The Medical Engineering Innovation Challenge finalists were ranked (thus far) in the following order and will be invited to present their proposals to the judges on May 20th:
1. Nanotube Surface Coating for Accelerated Bone Healing on Implant Devices - from
UCSD
2. BlastBrace - Neck collar airbag for cervical stabilization after collision - from USC
3. MicroFlow - flow cytometer for inexpensive cell & bacteria analysis - from UCSD
4. Flexible Spectrum - Detection and counter measure against wireless IEDs - from Caltech
5. Eos Neuroscience - Targeted Neural Control Therapeutics - from USC
6. Jadus BioScience - Rapid & accurate testing for food pathogens - from UCSD
All teams start with a fresh slate (there are no point carry-overs from the above rankings), and the presentation order will be randomized.
Congratulations again to the Medical Engineering Innovation Challenge finalists and thank you to all who submitted proposals! At least one member of each team must be present on May 20th to be considered--please RSVP by Tuesday with all your team member's names and contact info.
Best regards,
Sean Caffey, MD, MBA
Director of the BMES / TATRC Medical Engineering Innovation Challenge
** U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (www.tatrc.org)
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21 proposals received and all were accepted.
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Check this website for regular updates including announcements for Top Six teams, travel instructions, and winning proposals.
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Judges received proposals today. Judges include leaders from 8 companies (BMES IAB Members), Army, Navy, TATRC, and USC Marshall
Please email medengineering150@gmail.com if you have any questions.
1st Place:
Prize money between $35,000 to $100,000, depending on the requirements to achieve targeted milestones.
Summer internships at Texas Instruments HQ (Dallas, Texas)
2nd Place to 4th Place:
Between $2,000 to $50,000 per team
Schedule
Top six proposals will be announced sometime between May 11th and May 12th, 2008
Top six teams must present a 10-min presentation with 10-min of questions on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 between 1:00pm and 6:00pm at the Hilton Checkers in downtown Los Angeles
*Some travel support will be available for UCSD and UCSC affiliated applicants
Winning proposals will be announced May 20th, funding will be available June 1, 2008.
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