Previous Competition Highlights

2007 Grand Prize Winners

Health Category

SeroNostics
A UC Berkeley based company that developed a point of care diagnostic device capable of diagnosing disease in minutes by injecting bodily flu8id into disposable cartirdges that are intered into an analyzer. Poorya Sabounchi , J Tanner Nevill, Nicholas Toriello

General Category

World Hearing Organization
A private company that brings the most comprehensive affordable hearing health care services to the 25 million U.S. hearing impaired population. Sani Siamak, President/CEO

2007 Finalists (in alphabetical order)
Health Category:

• CellThera, a biotech venture based at UC San Francisco, is developing cell-based transplants for severely disabled stroke patients.
• Curant, a Stanford-based venture, is developing device-based therapies for people with urinary incontinence.
• cVision Medical Solutions, a Johns Hopkins-based venture, is developing a non-invasive ultrasound procedure that measures central venous pressure.
• Optimal Vision, a University of Illinois at Chicago-based venture, is developing a non-invasive laser procedure that reshapes the cornea and corrects near-vision loss.
• SeroNostics, a UC Berkeley-based venture, is developing a hand-held diagnostic device that allows physicians to quickly analyze bodily fluids and diagnose diseases such as influenza.

General Category

• eLegacy, a Lewis Center, OH-based firm, is developing software that makes it easier for estate holders and their executors to manage and settle estates.
• Celery, a Troy, NY-based firm, has developed a device that enables users to send and receive handwritten letters as email and receive printed color photos without a computer.
• AmeliaPlex, an Orlando, FL-based company, is developing and marketing software solutions that send medication reminders to users’ cell phones, pagers and other mobile devices.
• Prime Footwear, a Stanford-based venture, is developing therapeutic footwear with clinically validated technologies for consumers with joint problems.
• World Hearing Organization, a San Jose, CA-based venture, is developing mobile centers that come to hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare venues to test patients’ hearing and sell hearing aids at discounted prices.

2006 Grand Prize Winner

iRhythm Technologies,
Cardiac rhythm monitoring device. iRhythm Technolgies, Inc. has secured VC funding and is actively developing its product for a market release in early 2008
Founder: Uday N. Kumar, M.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

2006 Finalists (in alphabetical order)

• ALCiS Health, Inc., CEO: Brian Berchtold, San Jose, CA, Santa Clara University. Develops, distributes and sells total body therapy solutions.
• In Your Home, Co-CEOs: David Dickinson and Brian Bartholomew, Portland, OR. Provides assessments and advice, basic modifications, complete remodeling services and on-going home maintenance to help seniors age-in-place.
• Novelios Pharmaceuticals, Inc., CEO: Daniel Catron , Duke University, Durham, NC. Developing a breakthrough class of drug that restores the eye's natural means of preventing glaucoma.
• Renovus, Founders: Vivek Munshi, Leslie Oley, Sean Scanlan, Rich Vecchiotti, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Offers a Complete solution for patients who have undergone ostomy surgery.

2005 Grand Prize Winner

Tibion
Tibion Corporation is a start-up in the orthopedic medical device space. Their products provide exo-skeleton based muscle augmentation and rehabilitation for those with loss of muscle function due to disease, injury, aging, or surgery.

2004 Grand Prize Winner

MicroMRI
MicroMRI offers the Virtual Bone Biopsy "add-on" for MRI scanners, the only screening test to date that allows in-vivo anaylysis of bone microsturcture allowing pharmaceutical companies and clinicians to obtain precise information on overall bone strength and therapy response.

	John White, CEO, Stanford-based iRhythm Technologies and Amy Pruitt, Santa Clara University
	Left to right: Brad Vale, Vice President, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation Jennifer Fonstad, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Michael Goldberg, General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures Nancy Kamei, Investment Manager, Bio Med and Life Science, Intel Capital Jon Staenberg, Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners Emilio Pardo, Chief Brand Officer, AARP
	In Your Home, Portland, OR
	Dean Barry Posner, Leavey School of Business, SCU