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.
Electrokinetic Instability Micromixer
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Michael H. Oddy
Electrostatic Endothelial Cell Seeding: Apparatus and Procedure
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Gary L. Bowlin
Enantiomorphic Friction-Stir Welding Head-Pin
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Elijah E. Cocks
Engineered Probiotics
Ning Mao has shown that a safe bacteria found in dairy products has the serendipitous benefit of inhibiting the progression of a cholera infection. Building on this discovery, she developed an engineered version that provides early detection of cholera and helps further contain the spread of the disease. This synthetic probiotic could control outbreaks and save lives. In addition, the technology could be adapted to fight other types of bacterial infections.
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Ning Mao
Engineered SIRPα Variants as Immunotherapeutic Adjuvants to Anti-Cancer
Cancer is a leading cause of death, and many cancer treatments exhibit substantial toxicity despite minimal efficacy; we invented "high-affinity SIRPα variants" that bind cancer cells and stimulate attack by patients' own immune systems. By themselves, the SIRPα variants produce no toxicity to normal cells, but when combined with tumor-specific therapeutic antibodies, they exhibit remarkable synergy by stimulating immune cells called macrophages to engulf and destroy cancer cells.
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Aaron Ring
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