Hall of Fame – Previous Winners

2005:  

  1. Alicyn Rhoades, Stacey Trey, David Weldon
    NuBone: Hip Replacement Stem to reduce or eliminate infections, surgeries and pain endured by some patients who undergo a total-hip replacement.
  2. Vijayaraj Nagarajan, Venkata Thomida
    Clustering Gene Expression Data: A potential tool in discovering candidate drug targets for deadly diseases like breast cancer.
  3. John Anderson 
    Race Ramp: A sleek, colorful design for racing toy cars down a ramp.


Pictured: Stacey Trey and Alicyn Rhoades

2006:

  1. Lisa Kemp, Nick Hammond
    Ablitech, Inc:     Polymeric coatings for enabling new drug delivery methods in heart stents
  2. Vijayaraj Nagarajan
    A fourier transform based method to discover new potential antimicrobial peptides
  3. Jason Lemus
    Pisces Innovations, LLC:     A new method of producing copepods to enable aquaculturing of marine species.

Pictured: Lisa Kemp

2007:

  1. Andrew Magenau, Ted Novitsky, Robert Smith 
    Pierce Safe Technologies, LLC – An antimicrobial polymer-based coating applied to piercing studs that begins to heal immediately after the puncture.
  2. Sam Tucker, Pirro Cipi, Tammy Nolan
    CNTech – Polymeric coatings prevention and treatment of diseases caused by devices inserted in the human body
  3. Adam Sanford
    Emergency Medical Tourniquet – A new tourniquet design which seeks to reduce blood loss from an extremity, which is the #1 cause of death on a battlefield.

Pictured (L to R): Kelli Booth, Adam Sanford, Pirro Cipi, Sam Tucker, Andrew Magenau, Ted Novitsky, and Les Goff

2008:

  1. Chris Sahagun
    CS Composite Materials, LLC - A design for machinable carbon nanotube reinforced polymer composites.
  2. Irene Gorman
    Eligo Sciences, Inc. - This invention would enable the testing equipment, devices, and instrumentation of a conventional laboratory to fit on a single chip small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
  3. Matt Jackson
    Metaterials, Inc. - A novel curative to improve the performance common high temperature resin systems.

Pictured (L to R): Chris Sahagun, Irene Gorman, Matt Jackson

2009:

  1. Shawana Balof  
    Ru Catalysts Technologies – A series of Ruthenium catalysts for pharmaceutical applications that can easily be removed from pharmaceutical products.
  2. Nimesh Porbandarwalla, Russ Daniel
    Reactive Optics – A home blood glucose meter that measures glucose concentrations in diabetics more accurately and reliably than competing products
  3. Benny Anderson, Jr.
    The Anderson Capsule – A hand held device that could expose latent fingerprints at the crime scene without sending the item in question to a laboratory.

Pictured (L to R): Nimesh Porbandarwalla, Shawna Balof,

Benny Anderson Jr., Russ Daniel

 

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