Winners of medical device innovation challenge in Syracuse announced

Winners of the 2018 Medical Device Innovation Challenge will receive free admittance to business-related workshops at the Central New York Biotech Accelerator, above, in Syracuse.  (Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com)

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Upstate Medical University has selected seven winners of its 2018 Medical Device Innovation Challenge.

Among the winners are companies that have designed medical devices that increase mobility for individuals with bone abnormalities, cut the risk of medical errors, reduce energy costs for mobile medical refrigeration and store medications in a wearable bracelet for easy access.

The seven companies will receive free admittance to business-related workshops, including one on how to commercialize medical device concepts, at Upstate Medical University's Central New York Biotech Accelerator.

"We continue to be impressed by the innovative concepts and strategies for new medical devices and technologies," said Robert Corona, the university's associate dean for academic and industry relations and chief innovation officer. "Especially important is the underlying theme of these ideas, which is to improve the human condition, enhance patient safety and reduce costs."

The seven winners were chosen from 21 applications. They are:

  • Sea Legs, of Massachusetts, which aims to increase mobility for individuals with bone abnormalities by improving ankle-foot orthosis.
  • Avant Medical Systems Inc., of Alaska, which has designed a device that helps medical professionals reduce medical errors and thereby malpractice liability, while improving the quality of patient comfort and care.
  • Celltomics, of Buffalo, a pathology cell processing start-up that is designing ways to address the problem of diminutive specimens and the increasing amount of tests that are being required of them.
  • ANDRO Computational Services, of Rome and Syracuse, which is  developing a spinal medical device.
  • Hive Refrigeration, of Rochester, which is creating technological solutions to decrease energy use and monitor mobile medical refrigeration capabilities.
  • In-Spire, of Syracuse, which is developing a bracelet integrated with a small inhaler. The device will enable those wearing it to take medications while on the go.
  • Inventase LLC, of Connecticut, is a start-up company developing a urinary catheter that reduces catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science students Kayla Simon, left, and Elizabeth Tarangelo (both class of 2019), co-founders of In-Spire, are among the winners of Upstate Medical University's 2018 Medical Device Innovation Challenge for their invention of a wearable medicine dispenser. They are pictured at the Central New York Biotech Accelerator's Concept to Commercialization Boot Camp in September 2018.

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