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.
Novel High-Throughput Screen for Anticancer Agents
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Todd Waldman
Novel Method to Produce Insulin-Secreting Cells
Shen knew that patients with Type I diabetes must receive insulin every day because their pancreas fails to produce it. So her goal was to create a way for stem cells to release insulin in a completely synthetic environment and then be transplanted into the body to provide a permanent source of insulin. Taking stem cells from the adult rat liver, she inserted them into a growth medium that was essentially a three-dimensional scaffold. Then, she stimulated the scaffold with different growth factors, and the cells produced structures similar to those in a healthy pancreas.
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Colette Shen
Novel System for Oral Delivery of Peptides and Proteins
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Robert J. Schilling
NucleoTide
Over the past several decades, a combination of natural and human-caused factors has led to an increase in the frequency, duration, size and impact of harmful algal blooms (HABs), with a global economic impact estimated at more than $8 billion annually. NucleoTide is a molecular diagnostic platform that uses CRISPR-based biosensors to rapidly identify marine pathogens and HABs. With a low-cost, hand-held device that filters and processes water samples, it enables lab-free, on-site ocean health monitoring and provides results in less than an hour, offering both economic and environmental benefits.
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Daniel Collins
Optically Adjustable Nanostructures
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