2022 DEBUT Challenge winners announced! The annual Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and VentureWell, today announced nine winning teams and five honorable mentions that designed technology solutions to unmet healthcare needs. The prizes, worth $130,000 in total, went to teams from universities across the country. The DEBUT Challenge, initiated and led by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), was also supported by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), all parts of NIH—along with VentureWell, a non-profit higher-education network that supports science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship in higher education. The prizes will be presented during the annual Biomedical Engineering Society conference held Oct. 12-15, 2022. NIBIB-sponsored prizes - The Steven H. Krosnick Prize: EquinOx, Johns Hopkins University
- Second Prize: Ampliphage, Stanford University
- Third Prize: CERV, Columbia University
- NIH OAR Prize for HIV/AIDS: Point-Of-Care Automated Stainer for Tuberculosis Diagnostics (POCAS:TB), Northwestern University
- NIMHD Prize for Low-Resource Settings: HappyHeart, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
- NCI Cancer Prize: Neurosafe, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- National Center for Medical Rehabilitation, NICHD Prize for Assistive/Rehabilitative Technologies: Yoomi, Cornell University
VentureWell-sponsored prizes - Venture Prize: EMIT Male Contraceptive, Arizona State University
- Design Excellence Prize: SteadiSpoon, Southern Methodist University and the University of Oklahoma
Learn more about each winning project and watch videos from the teams. | 
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