Winners

Digital Technology Solutions to Improve the Vision-Specific Quality of Life

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Tan Cheng Sim Anna, M.B.B.S., MMed | Singapore Eye Research Institute; Angelique Chan, D.Phil. | Duke-NUS Graduate School; and Ecosse Lamoureux, M.S., D.Phil. | Singapore Eye Research Institute…

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Year 2023 2022 2021 2020

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Three-Tier Biomarker Discovery Platform for Ageing Frailty

Alfredo Franco-Obregon, PhD, and Santhosh Kumar Seetharaman, M.B.B.S, MRCP, FRCP | National University of Singapore; and Ivan Goh Jiewen, M.S. | QuantumTx Pte Ltd
Competition Sponsor: Ministry of Health and National Research Foundation of Singapore
Awardee Year: 2020 Two principal factors predominantly determine the onset of age-related frailty and…

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Artificial Intelligence Assisted Early Diagnosis Mechanism for Alzheimer’s Disease

Chia-Lung Liu, Ph.D., Feng-Jie Tsai, MS, Mu-Liang Wang, BS, and Ting-Wu Ho, PhD | Industrial Technology Research Institute – Information and Communications Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 As the global population continues to age, the number of people suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) currently…

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Dementia-MDIC Patch for Healthy People

Chen-Hsun Weng, Ph.D. | National Cheng Kung University, Medical Device Innovation Center (MDIC), Tainan, Taiwan; Yu-Sheng Lin, Ph.D. | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology; and Sing Yung Bu, MS (MDIC), Jamie Liao, BS (MDIC), and Hans Chiang, MS (MDIC)
Competition Sponsor: Academia…

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Development of Body Exoskeleton

Jung-Tang Huang, PhD, Po-Hsiang Chuang, MS (student), En-Yu Lin, MS (student), Chih-Ming Chuang, MS (student), Pei-Ying Chang (undergraduate), Pei-En Wu (undergraduate), Chien-Hsun Wang (undergraduate), Ping-Lun Tsai (undergraduate) | National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 This project will develop a High-load powered body…

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Mechanism of Gut Microbiota-Regulated Cardiac Repair After Infarction in Aged Mice

Patrick C.H. Hsieh, MD, PhD, Byron Chen, PhD | Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 Myocardial infarction (MI) remains the leading cause of mortality across all industrialized nations and the mortality rate of patients suffering from acute MI increases with age.…

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Targeting Dietary Restriction-Associated Gut Microbiota to Prevent and Treat Age-Related Cognitive Decline

Pei-Yu Wang, PhD | Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Wei-Sheng Lin, MD | Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 Cognitive decline is a critical health and social issue…

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F. van Hellenberg Hubar, MSc | Wolk
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health of the European Union
Awardee Year: 2020
Hip fracture is the most serious consequence of osteoporosis globally due to its complications (chronic pain, disability, diminished quality of life, and premature death). More than 620,000 elderly people break their hip…

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Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Cardiovascular Diseases

Manuel Marina Breysse, MD, MSc, José María Lillo Castellano, PhD, Carlos Lizcano de Amoroto, MSc, and Beatriz Sanau Hornero, MSc | IDOVEN
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health
Awardee Year: 2020 Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death globally. The WHO estimates 17.9 million fatal CVDs in 2016, representing 31%…

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BOCAhealth, the Body Fluid Management Company of the Future

Dr. Alessandro Faragli, Dr. Edoardo La Porta, Lorenzo Estienne, Marco Mezzadra, and Dr. Ing. Davide Bianchi | BOCAhealthcare GmbH
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health
Awardee Year: 2020 The vision of BOCAhealth is to improve the quality of life and to reduce the mortality of chronic ill patients at high risk such…

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