2008 BMEidea Winners

Pictured above: Back row left to right: Alec Zopf, Northwestern; Kurt Qing, Northwestern; Joseph Wood, Johns Hopkins; Dhanya Rangaraj, Johns Hopkins; Meet Patel, Johns Hopkins Front row left to right: Shonali Midha, Northwestern; Lauren Smith, Northwestern; Sumona Nag, Stanford; Ellis Garai, Stanford; Henry Chang, Johns Hopkins; Hyun-Sun Seo, Johns Hopkins Not pictured: Anup Shah, Stanford

First Prize: Rapid Suture
- Stanford University
Rapid Suture is a small, inexpensive device that allows for quick, safe, and easy surgical tissue manipulation during laparoscopic procedures.

Second Prize: KMC ApneAlert
- Northwestern University
Developing a device for premature infants that monitors abdominal breathing movements and sounds an alarm when the infant stops breathing.

Third Prize: REGEN: Local Delivery of Post-Operative Analgesia
- Johns Hopkins University
REGEN is a small implantable receptacle that diffuses pain-relieving analgesic directly at the site of a laparoscopic incision.
Upcoming Events:
I2V Washington State
March 12
Washington State University
Pullman, WA
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March 25
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
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April 9
University of Vermont
Montpelier, VT
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May 17-20
Rice University
Houston, TX
AI2V Oregon
June 12-15
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR

