Winners

Using Sound Technology to Detect Abnormalities in the Daily Life of Elderly Living Alone

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Huang, Kuang-Chiu, Ph.D. |Aurismart Technology Corporation; Huang, Ching-wei MS, RN
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2023 Health Longevity often entails the challenges of living alone. Immediate dangers of…

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Filter by Competition Sponsor Academia Sinica Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarollo de Chile Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences EIT Health Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development Ministry of Health and National Research Foundation of Singapore National Academy of Medicine Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong U.S. National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health United Kingdom Research and Innovation

Year 2023 2022 2021 2020

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Improving access and outcomes of cataract surgery globally

Kunal Parikh, PhD; Joshua de Souza, MSE; Shameema Sikder, MD | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2023 Globally, 17 M people are blind and 83.5 M have moderate-to-severe visual impairment due to cataracts, which are primarily a disease of aging.…

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Rapid diagnostic tests for precision respiratory medicine

Roberto de la Rica, PhD | Nanodecal; Antonio Clemente, PhD; Steven Russell, BA
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health of the European Union
Awardee Year: 2023 Nanodecal is developing a rapid diagnostic test for preventing incurable lung infections. The test detects the superbugs responsible for the infection in less than 10…

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aiKNIT: Programmable wearable devices for the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders

Dr Ali Yetisen | Imperial College London; Sophie Richter
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023   1.7 billion people worldwide are suffering from the pain of musculoskeletal disorders. This is more than one in four people on the entire planet. The rapid growth of an ageing…

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Accelerate patient recovery by providing a portable and effective healing environment

Eef Lamers, Msc | Micro-Cosmos B.V.; Skip van de Kandelaar; Mart Bekkers
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health of the European Union
Awardee Year: 2023   More than half of inpatients experience poor sleep, sleeping on average 93 minutes less than they do at home, despite the critical role sleep plays in…

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Mitochondria plaques as a novel therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s Disease

Xiuli Dan, PhD; Paul D Robbins, PhD | University of Minnesota; Vilhelm A. Bohr, PhD | University of Copenhagen; Deborah L. Croteau, PhD | National Institute on Aging, NIH
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2023 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative condition associated with…

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Build elders on-line community for regular rehabilitation and daily muscle training

Kuan-Chun Sun, PhD | FREE Bionics; Cheng-Hua Wu, Founder/CEO; Ming-Chang Teng, CTO; Yi-Jeng Tsai, PhD; Chia-En Huang, PhD
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2023 This project is based on a portable and home-used robot, called NimBO, which could provide single joint muscle evaluation, training (ex: isokinetic, isotonic, isometric, passive/assist-active…

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Voice-first, multimodal interface for post-treatment geriatric assessment and tailored digital health promotion education for older adults with cancer

Kristen L. Fessele, PhD, RN | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Andrea Cuadra, PhD | Stanford University; Armin Shahrokni, MD, MPH | Hackensack Meridian Health;  Grigory Syrkin, MD |  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2023 The COBRA (Cancer, Older…

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Enhancing Health Longevity of Individuals with Limited Mobility

Sungmee Park, PhD, MFA; Sundaresan Jayaraman, PhD |  Georgia Institute of Technology
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2023

According to the CDC, one in four adults in the United States has a functional disability and the percentage of adults with mobility-related disabilities is 11.1%. Around 3.3

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Revolutionizing Personalized Organ Generation for a Healthier Future

Rodrigo Valdoleiros e Silva, MD | Orgavalue
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health of the European Union
Awardee Year: 2023 Introducing Orgavalue, a revolutionary bioengineering marvel poised to transform the landscape of personalized human organ generation. Our state-of-the-art technology draws inspiration from evolutionary biology, culminating in the creation of intricately…

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