Avi Roop and Kevin
Chao, 2008-2010
Innovation Fellows, were awarded 3rd Prize in the Venture Challenge
hosted by the Entrepreneurial Management Center, San Diego State
University for their Miret Surgical device. They received an
award of $1500.
Nish Chasmawala, 2008 Stanford-India Biodesign Fellow, was awarded the India TR35, MIT's award for the top 35 innovators under 35 in India.
Driptech, the business started by Peter Frykman, a Biodesign Teaching Assistant in 2007, was selected as one of Businessweek's Most Intriguing New Startups for 2009.
The Jaipur Knee, designed by students in Tom Andriacchi's class as the Biodesign-sponsored project, has been selected as one of Time Magazine's Top 50 Inventions for 2009 and by CNN as one of the top 10 inventions for 2009. Congratulations to the student team: Ayo
Roberts, Joel Sadler, Angelo Szychowski, Eric Thorsell and Ellis Garai (2009 Biodesign Fellow).
We congratulate Srinivas Jaggu, a 2008-2010 Stanford-India Biodesign fellow, who was chosen as one of the first TEDIndia Fellows for 2009.
Tom Krummel, the Emile Holman Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery and Co-Director of the Biodesign Program, was recently installed as the President of the Halsted Society for the 2010 Society year. This is one of the oldest and most prestigious surgical organizations in the country whose purpose is to further the scientific principles and ideals; to encourage exchange of ideas, free and informal discussion, and a spirit of sociability and good fellowship among its members.
Scott Delp, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering and of Mechanical Engineering, and, by courtesy, or Orthopaedic Surgery, co-director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Computation and Advisory Faculty in the Biodesign Program, has been appointed as an initial holder of the James H. Clark Professorship in the School of Engineering. The James H. Clark Fund for Bioengineering was established in 1999 to support bioengineering faculty generally, and was previously used to support new faculty in starting up their labs.
Embrace, the Stanford student started company that manufactures low-cost infant warming blankets, has been named one of 25 Community Service Honorees by Time Magazine. |