VentureWell BMEidea Competition: Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline
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VentureWell BMEidea CompetitionHarvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 15, 2018OSP Deadline: March 27, 2018Sponsor Deadline: April 4, 2018Award Amount: $10,000 (first place), $5,000 (second place), and $2,500 (third place) as well as access to resources to be used for further development and commercialization of their productsTarget Applicants: Graduate and undergraduate student teams that include at least one engineering student.
The BMEidea competition recognizes innovative biomedical engineering designs with high commercial potential and social impact. Strong submissions define a problem and demonstrate the development of a device, product, or technology designed to solve it. Examples include but are not limited to: surgical devices, home health care devices, diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventative applications, rehabilitative and assistive technologies, or other innovations that will have a substantial impact on clinical care and patient outcomes.
Submissions must come from teams of graduate and undergraduate students that include at least one engineering student. Each team must have a faculty advisor who will take primary responsibility for the project at the institution, and the internal application will require a letter of support from the faculty advisor co-signed by advisor’s department/area chair. Teams are encouraged to incorporate members from diverse fields such as business, law, medicine, dentistry, nursing, physical therapy, life sciences, physical sciences, or other related disciplines. Projects should focus on a new health-related technology, be invented by students, and address a real clinical need. Inter-institutional collaborations are also encouraged, with a faculty advisor from each institution demonstrating support for the project.
Harvard University, as one institution, is limited to submitting three entries to this competition. In addition, there is a limit of one entry per department/area, defined by the department or area of the faculty adviser