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title: 2024 Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition Winners
description: Discover the winners of the 2024 BMES/Medtronic Student Design Competition, showcasing solutions in biomedical engineering from students nationwide.
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# [2024 Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition Winners](https://www.bmes.org/news/2024-medtronic/bmes-student-design-competition-winners)

 Written by [BMES](https://www.bmes.org/news/author/bmes) | 10/25/2024

The Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition was a tremendous success, showcasing an array of innovative submissions from talented students across the nation. Each project demonstrated creativity and practical solutions in biomedical engineering. Excitement filled the air as participants and attendees celebrated their hard work. Find out who won below! 

## Chemical/Biological

**First Place**

SNIFF: Smart Neoplasm Identification by Fume Fingerprinting

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

*Felipe Andrade Villalobos (pictured), Maximiliano Mariné Durandeau, Rosario Willatt Contardo, Ignacio Moscoso Gutiérrez, Javier Castro Guevara* 

**Second Place **

Affinity.Bio: AffiBone - A Protein Codelivery System for Bone Regeneration 

University of Oregon - Knight Campus 

*Jonathan Dorogin *

**Third Place**

Axcent: A Novel Approach to Neuronal Repair Following Ishemic Stroke

University of California, Santa Barbara

*Nathan Nasseri, Anirudh Lahiri, Liad Habot, Faizan Azhar, Anant Somani *

## Electrical/Computer Science

**First Place**

Aurora: the next step for in-vivo skin cancer diagnosis

University of Rochester

*Bereket Temesgen*

**Second Place**

HarVI: Virtual Intervention Planning for Coronary Artery Disease

Duke University

*Cyrus Tanade*

**Third Place**

Easyringe: Voice-Controlled Syringe Pump

University of Florida

*Gabriella Flinn, Samhita Popuri, Cynthia Liu, Tanmayee Kolli *

## Mechanical/Electrical

**First Place **

Cornell DEBUT Phase 2B

SteadyStride:  The Self-Stabilizing Cane for Parkinson's Disease

Cornell University

*Andrew D'Onofrio, Emma Weiss, Angela Altamirano, Veda Kam, Ally Schwartz, Nina Williams, Reza Ashrafi, Allen Tang* 

**Second Place**

ARCOL: An Autonomous/Remote Control Operating Light for Optimized Surgical Illumination 

Texas A&M University

*Carson Benner*

**Third Place**

DermaVision Technologies: Portable Bruise Spectroscopy Across All Skins Tones 

University of California, Irvine

*Gerald Lee (representing University of California, Irvine), Elian Lintag*

## 2024 Special Category: AI/ML related to Treatment of Sport Injuries and Orthopedic Conditions

**First Place**

OsteoAssist:  An Opportunistic Screening Tool for Osteoporosis and Fracture Risk Analysis through Bone Mineral Density Prediction

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

*Sayeed Sajjad Razin, Farihin Rahman *

**Second Place **

Knee AI Rehab Sleeve (KAIRS): A novel approach to post-op knee rehabilitation using AI

*Chinmay Singh, Samanyu Dixit, Sahaj Sapovadia*

**Third Place **

Bioptim.ai

University of California, Santa Barbara

*Anirudh Lahiri, Nathan Nasseri, Faizan Azhar, Bardia Khosravi, Liad Habot*

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