Course Name: BME Design Team
A Novel Technology to Mitigate Scissoring Gait in CP Patients
Scissoring is one of the major challenges affecting ambulation in individuals with cerebral palsy. There are few effective methods currently...
A Novel Stem Cell Delivery Device
Recent advancements in stem cell therapies have shown the potential to revolutionize the treatment of many conditions. However, there is...
A Novel Assistive Device for Lower Limb Prostheses
We have generated two prototypes that work together to improve the usability and accessibility of the pin-locking suspension system for...
Tremtex
Tremtex is working in conjunction with clinical and research partners at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to develop an...
Sureshunt: An Improved Ventricular Catheter
Hydrocephalus is a condition characterized by a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the ventricular cavities of brain.The condition is...
Plaqate: A Safer Coronary Atherectomy System
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death globally and the most significant cost contributor to the health care system....
NeoVate: Monitoring Neonatal Vital Signs for Low Resource Settings
Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in developing countries are overcrowded and healthcare providers are overworked.Monitoring vital signs is a time-consuming...
NeoSED: Early Detection of Neonatal Sepsis
Every year, there are 4 million neonatal deaths around the world, predominantly in low and middle income countries. One of...
Kubanda: Breast Cancer Treatment in Rural Clinics in South Africa
Breast cancer is a growing problem throughout the world. However, in recent years, as more developing countries begin to adopt...
GaitAssist: A Novel Technology to Mitigate Scissor Gait in Patients with Cerebral Palsy
Scissor gait is one of the major challenges affecting mobility in individuals with cerebral palsy (CP), which is a neurological...
Flapp: A Platform for 3D Local Soft-tissue Flap Design for Facial Reconstructive Surgery
Flapp is a mobile computer-assisted surgery application that will help surgeons create and plan local tissue flaps in facial reconstructive...
exoRise: Revision Patient Transfer
Healthcare workers, particularly nurses and nursing assistants, endure some of the highest rates of occupational musculoskeletal injury and the most...
eXoid: Decreasing New Initiates to Prescription Opioid Abuse
There are over 16,000 deaths annually from prescription drug overdose, resulting in over $72 billion in costs for medical providers,...
EchoSpine: Guiding Physicians through Imaging
To help physicians access structures and spaces deep in the body, we present EchoSpine, an ultrasound imaging device that delivers...
CricSpike Emergency Cricothyrotomy Assist Device for Tactical Field Care
According to data from Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), two of the most recent American military...
CompliaStent: Improving Aortic Compliance in Heart Failure Patients
One of the aorta’s main jobs is to smooth out the pulsatile blood flow leaving the heart, a task made...
CardiAcc: Noninvasive Cardiac Output Monitoring
In the US alone, heart failure affects the lives of 5.1 million people and costs the healthcare system $32 billion...
Towards a Safe and Simple Method for Artificial Lens Fixation
Every year, 20,000 patients with damaged capsular support undergo a procedure known as artificial lens fixation. However, historical and current...
Automated Tourniquet to Control Battlefield Hemorrhage
Currently, over 60% of preventable battlefield deaths are due to uncontrolled extremity hemorrhage, which translates to about 165 deaths per...
Axillary Lymph Node Localization
In the US, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality among women. Our team is working to improve...
Postpartum Hemorrhage Management in the United States
Every 10 minutes, a woman in the United States will face a pregnancy-related complication and a majority of these complications...
TacPac
TacPac aims to provide at-home therapeutic drug monitoring of immunosuppressive drug tacrolimus. Given to 90% of the 300,000 transplant-patients in...
Verifying CAD Patient Medication Adherence
Coronary artery disease, which affects 16.8 million people in the US, is effectively managed by the long-term use of prescription...
Establishing a Quantitative Endpoint for Transarterial Embolization Utilizing Real-time Pressure Measurements
For 85% of liver cancer patients with unresectable tumors, the standard of care is transarterial embolization therapy, a procedure in...
Telemedicine Solution for Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a vision-impairing retinal disease that occurs in preterm infants and can account for up to...
Facilitating Descemet’s Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty
Every year, over 75,000 corneal transplants, or keratoplasties, are performed. Of all keratoplasties, a large proportion are partial keratoplasties, which...
Non-Surgical Management of Nasal Obstruction
Restricted nasal breathing is one of the most common complaints heard by otolaryngologists (ENTs) every day. This symptom is indicative...
Kubanda Cryotherapy for Breast Cancer in Low Resource Settings
Breast Cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women worldwide, and while 5- year survival rates are nearing 90%...
Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Low Resource Settings
Breast cancer leads to half a million deaths annually and disproportionately affects developing countries due to an uneven distribution of...
Increasing Intraocular Pressure in the Setting of Chronic Hypotony
Chronic hypotony is a condition characterized by extended periods of low intraocular pressure. It is estimated that chronic hypotony affects...