Here’s a summary of the Biodesign 2016 cohort’s experience:
- The 2016 BioDesign Class
- 2016 Student Experience
- BioDesign 2016 at Endeavour
- 2016 Clinicians
- 2016 BioDesign Distinguished Speakers
- What Our Students Say about BioDesign Melbourne
Achievements
The teams made outstanding progress during and after Biodesign Melbourne.
NAVi Medical Technologies:
- Winner of “Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!” competition (US$50,000), Sep 2017 at the Fifth Annual Pediatric Device Innovation Symposium in San Jose, California, USA.
- Winner of the Startup Victoria Healthtech Pitch Night ($150,000), Aug 2017. In addition, the team won the People’s Choice Award at the Startup Victoria Healthtech Pitch night.
- Second place in Victoria-China Sunan Cup Startup Competition ($15,000), Sep 2017. The team won an additional $1,000 prize for being the most popular project.
- Texas Medical Center Accelerator, TMCx (2017).
- Winner of HealthTech Innovation Challenge 2017: Pitch Event ($20,000), Graeme Clark Institute and Melbourne Academic Centre for Health.
- Obtained ethics approval to commence clinical research at Royal Women’s Hospital in Sep, 2017.
- Featured in the Melbourne Business School Impact Report and Video, 2017 and 2018.
- In 2018, NAVi joined the Actuator, Australia’s Medtech Accelerator
- For updates visit https://www.navitechnologies.com/news-notes
Team Neuro:
- Won two awards at Endeavour: the Endeavour Wade Institute Entrepreneurship prize and the IEEE Award for Technical Innovation & Engineering Achievement.
Team SWADE:
- Final five at MedTech’s Got Talent ($20,000 prize plus an incubation process with mentors).
- Finalist in Victoria-China Sunan Cup Startup competition (received $5000 prize).
Team PELT:
- Final five at MedTech’s Got Talent ($20,000 prize plus an incubation process with mentors)
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