Yale CBIT

Happy Founder Friday! This week we are spotlighting Stuart Campbell, PhD. Co-Founder of Propria.

Founded in 2018 by the Yale Biomedical Engineering professor, Propria’s goal is to make human engineered heart tissue (hEHT) more powerful and accessible to scientists. Propria conducts in vitro cardiac contractility testing of disease models and new therapeutics. Learn more by visiting https://www.propriabio.com/

Tune in next Friday to meet a new founder!

The Yale Innovation Summit is still accepting applications for your Health Innovation!

🚨 Less than 1 Week Left to Submit Your Idea!
Submit your pitch slides by Monday, April 22 at 5 pm: https://lnkd.in/epK8dSJ4

APPLY ONCE FOR THREE OPPORTUNITIES:

Live Pitch Presentation: Pitch your innovation to a live audience on stage during the Innovation Summit.
ePoster Presentation: Present your innovation on an ePoster to hundreds of event attendees over two days.
Virtual Spotlight: All qualified applicants will be featured in a virtual Innovation Showcase that will be promoted to all Summit attendees.

We were inspired by the brilliant ideas shared by student innovators at and remarkable healthcare solutions at the pitch event. A huge congratulations to the 2024 Yale Rothberg Catalyzer Prize winner, TaeSun, and the audience choice winner, Clairity!

Sincere thank you to the panel of judges who offered expert insights, Melissa A. Davis, MD, MBA, Samuel Lee, and Matt Storeygard and the generous prize sponsor, Dr. Jonathan Rothberg and at Yale.

Always a pleasure working with dedicated collaborators across campus Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) Dwight Hall At Yale, Yale (IHY). Special shout out to the talented team at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) and Margaret Cartiera, PhD.

Congratulations to our Audience Choice winner!

Team Members: Alev Baysoy, Rory Bonner, Dan Fitzgerald, Alaaddin Ibrahimy, Urvil Shah

Summary: healthcare data aggregate creating a lifelong medical record to empower self-care

Congratulations to our Yale School of Public Health winner!

Team Members: Kyle Feliciano, Emily Qian

Summary: a tool for parents of children who play video games, to encourage and reward physical activity

Congratulations to our Runner Up winner!

Team Members: Vijay Bhaskar Chiluveru, Muntaser Syed
Summary: Better leg health,​ with real-time, non-invasive &​ user-friendly monitoring

Yale Ventures

Congratulations to our Rothberg Grand Prize Winner!

Team Members:
Andrea Orane, MPH
Jhonatan M. Nagasako, Engineer
Obinna (Ob) Anosike, MD
Yawen (Zora) Luan, RN, BSN, MS

Summary:
Emma’s Story is an interactive journaling book actively supporting children with cancer, and their families, along the journey to process feelings, celebrate milestones, and create lasting memories.

Thank you to everyone who was able to make the 2023 Yale CBIT Healthcare Hackathon possible. We had 5 amazing judges, and 2 genius bar sessions for each team that was filled with over 30 extremely helpful mentors to guide our 15 teams. We would also like to thank Indira Negi for being our Keynote Speaker. And finally, last but not the least, we'd like to thank the amazing committee leaders and members who worked relentlessly throughout the past several months to make this event happen in person for the first time since 2019!

We hope to see you all next year as well! Please keep an eye out to find out more about the winning teams and their pitches.

A HUGE thank you to our sponsors, without which we would not have been able to make the 2023 Healthcare Hackathon possible!

This past weekend, hackers from all over the country engaged in a weekend of fun-filled, intellectually engaging hacking for three days. Several all-nighters were pulled and amazing projects were presented. We were all amazed by the participants' enthusiasm and creativity. We will be highlighted the teams that won the awards later this week on our social media. Congratulations to everyone who participated and thank you to all who made this event possible!

Yale CBIT Healthcare Hackathon has some amazing people open to mentoring participants on their ideas and solutions. Here are just some of the mentors that will be at this year's hackathon this weekend!