Alberta Bench to Bedside Young Innovators Competition 2021
The Bench to Bedside Students' Association hosted our very first Alberta Bench to Bedside Young Innovators Competition (ABBYIC) on May 1st, 2021. The ABBYIC is a place for teams of young medical and research trainees in Alberta to pitch their innovative solutions to common medical problems, Dragon's Den style.
Alberta B2B Young Innovators Award was awarded to B2B Innovators Team #2 - The Future of Rhinoplasty The runner-up and People's Choice Award was awarded to B2B innovators Team #5 - Breaking the Silence of Pancreatic Cancer Congratulations to all six of the teams! We enjoyed hearing the creative ideas borne from collaboration.
Watch the presentations here:
ABBYIC Innovator Teams 2021
B2B INNOVATORS 1 Metabolic Profiling of Cardiac Allografts During Ex Situ Heart Perfusion in a Porcine Model of Organ Donation after Circulatory Death Xiao Qi | Sanaz Hatami | Fulin Wang | Joshua Hefler | Keir Forgie
B2B INNOVATORS 2
3D Bioprinting of Nasal Cartilage: The Future of Rhinoplasty
Xiaoyi (Michelle) Lan | Zhiyao Ma | Margaret Vyhlidal
B2B INNOVATORS 3
Brain ScanNIRS: Near-infrared spectroscopy for neurological imaging in low resource settings
Harry Wilton-Clark | Deepan Hazra | Kevin Lee | Cassandra Sillner
B2B INNOVATORS 4
MediPET, HU(MAN)’s BE5T FR1END: Robotic Animal Emotional Support and Monitoring System by JADE ST(REET)
Jamil Kassam | Sicheng (Delia) Lee | Steven Craig
B2B INNOVATORS 5
Breaking the Silence of Pancreatic Cancer
Emily McNamara | Yesmine Elloumi | Haresh Sureshkumar
B2B INNOVATORS 6
Novel Uses of the Anti-Diabetic Drug Empagliflozin for the Treatment of Sepsis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Shubham Soni | Mya Schmidt | Valentin Mocanu