Neurosurgery Device Wins Grand Prize at 13th Annual Bench to Bedside Competition

Among the 27 student teams showcasing their next-generation medical device projects at the Bench to Bedside final event at the Utah State Capitol Building on Monday, it was the SoundPass project which earned the grand prize award and $20,000 in milestone funding in this medical-innovation competition for college students. Comprised of second- and third-year medical […]

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LERC Medical: A Dual-Function Esophageal Probe

University of Utah biomedical engineering students Lauren Slattery, Emma Slominski, Robert Falconer, and Catie Augustine put the L-E-R-C into LERC Medical. The first letters of their names form the name of the company they formed to support the realization of their prototype of a dual-function esophageal probe. Esophageal probes are long probes inserted through the […]

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LERC Medical Wins Grand Prize in 2022 Bench to Bedside Competition

After a multi-year hiatus, the Bench to Bedside Competition Night event returned to the Utah State Capitol Building in April, showcasing collegiate teams from across Utah during the 2021-22 competition season. More than 300 people attended the event. Led by the Center for Medical Innovation in partnership with the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, the Bench to Bedside […]

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GAIA: Improving Prosthetic Technology

Nick Witham, a biomedical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, founded GAIA Technologies with a goal to change lives through better prosthetics. GAIA is doing this as a prosthetics component company that builds sensor arrays to measure muscle shapes. The outcome: more affordable and higher-functioning prosthetic limbs. GAIA’s sensor array technology can be […]

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2020 Bench to Bedside Grant Prize Winner Could Streamline Physical Therapy

Optima Recovery’s combination hot and cold physical therapy device won the $25,000 grand prize in the 2020 Bench to Bedside Competition earlier this month. Their device meets a common need for physical therapists, athletic trainers, and medical professionals who regularly use hot and cold treatments to promote healing and recovery to strained and injured muscles. […]

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