Past Collegiate Inventors Competition Winners
Learn about the student inventors who have excelled in the Collegiate Inventors Competition®. You can search our past competition winners by name, year or university.
3-D Form Felting Machine
Although industrial flat felting machines exist, Loxam-Kohl was motivated to develop a method to produce a three-dimensional felted object directly from raw materials, with no further processing and with an automated agitation process.
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Deborah Loxam-Kohl
3D Bioprinting Vascularized Human Tissue
A 3D printer has been used to build human tissue and the blood vessels to keep it alive for the first time. This method could create skin to be used in grafts, allow for in vitro drug testing before clinical trials, and generate different types of tumors to study their growth and reactions to treatments. The possibilities are endless and game-changing.
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Dave Kolesky
3Derm
This invention is a handheld imaging device for taking 3-D, high-definition images of skin lesions or other abnormalities in the clinic or at home and, through a proprietary web interface, allows doctors to remotely access the images for more efficient patient care.
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Elizabeth Asai
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Nickolas Demas
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Elliot Swart
A Bioactive Interface for Implant Bonding and Tissue Repair
This invention is a material based structured bioactive interface that enables a new generation of biomedical implants to directly interact with the human body for long-term functionality. The interface is easily tunable and biologically programmable with broad applicability giving rise to new therapeutic options and cures for debilitating diseases, thus increasing patient survival and improving their quality of life.
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Nisarg Shah
A New Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Cell
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