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This challenge is no longer accepting new submissions.

Design by Undergraduate Biomedical Teams (DEBUT) 2014 Challenge

NIBIB is challenging undergraduate student teams to develop technologies to address unmet needs in healthcare.

Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health

Total Cash Prizes Offered: $45,000
Type of Challenge: Scientific
Submission Start: 01/27/2014 12:00 AM ET
Submission End: 05/29/2014 12:00 AM ET

This challenge is externally hosted.

You can view the challenge details here: http://tinyurl.com/debut2014

Description

With this contest, the NIBIB is challenging teams of undergraduate students to identify an unmet health/clinical need, and design and build a biomedical technology/method that addresses it. Areas of interest for the biomedical engineering design projects include, but are not limited to, diagnostics, therapeutics, technologies for underserved populations/low-resource settings, point-of-care systems, precision medicine, preventive medicine and technologies to aid individuals with disabilities.