In 2024, the BioDesign Program was named one of five finalists in the Future Builder category of the #ShapingAustraliaAwards24 by Universities Australia. We are honored to receive this recognition. The winner will be announced in Feb, 2025. You can vote us for the Peoples Choice Award at the link.

Thank you to everyone who helped make BioDesign2024 a success.

The BioDesign 2024 Cohort

The 2024 cohort consists of six teams.

Team 1: Auryx

The members of Auryx are Saad Hassan, Jayani Galketiya, Anton Jensen, Fiona Sherwin, Ingra Bringmann and Alvaro Sanchez Herrero. Their project uses the stimulation of the vagus nerve to improve rehabiliation of stroke patients.

Team 2: Mitera

Team Mitera consists of Jingxiu (Mathew) Huang, Jack Christie, Luke Gennaccaro, Simon Holmberg, Karen Parr and Alex Potenza. They are working on a better way to screen for high breast density, a risk factor in cancer.

Mitera won one of two SEMBA2003 Awards for best business approach at the Endeavour Showcase. They also won the Telstra Tech Breakthrough and Community Impact Award.

Team 3: VisionPulse

VisionPulse team members are Finn O’Neill, Danny Feng, Stephanie Xu, Zane Ng, Zan Yang and Aaradhya Srivastava. They are working on a home-based vision monitoring system for diabetes patients.

Team 4: Elen

Team Elen is working on endometriosis, a chronic disease of the uterine region affecting 1 in 7 women in Australia. The team members are Charlotte Jones, Yipu (Jayde) Wang, Charlotte Thomas, Fernando Gargollo and Ryan Armin.

Elen won a number of prestigious awards at the Endeavour Showcase, including the Stephen Ho Innovation Award and the University of Melbourne’s Reseach, Innovation and Commercialisation (RIC) Award.

Team Elen also won one of two SEMBA2003 Awards for best business approach.

In November, Team Elen won the People’s Choice Award at the Victorian Startup Network Impact Pitch Night. They also won the Monash Young Inovators award.

Team 5: Ospray

Team Ospray consists of Chuntian (Alex) Zhang, Fanxuan (Gary) Xia, Zilan (Gloria) Huang, Sunny Chen and Jack Hong. They are working on a sprayable bandage to address pressure ulcers.

Team 6: Visionry

Visionry consists of Owain Chan, Shivam Sharma, Dongpeng (York) Tan, Mayank Beri and Alexander Spoljar. They are revolusionizing eye surgery with a new real-time monitoring system.

Team Visionry was one of four finalists in the 2025 Medtech Actuator Origin Competition. At the Endeavour showcase, Visionry won the prestigious Stephen Ho Innovation Award.