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ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Cerebral palsy, the most common motor disability in childhood, causes mobility issues, leading to gait abnormalities. The spectrum of these abnormalities includes having stiff or flaccid mus…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Cardiovascular surgery is a complex and high-risk procedure that requires precise navigation to ensure the success of the operation. In recent years, there has been growing interest in the d…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The project focuses on the development of a solar powered, portable respirator system that utilizes an Ambu bag and incorporates an LCD user interface to allow for the setting of specific pa…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovascular disease is the direct cause of 20% of deaths in the United States, and 32% of deaths worldwide, making it one of the leading causes of death in the world. The continuous monit…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. The standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is the benchmark for CVD diagnosis, yet it is currently impractical for con…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Outbreak of pandemics such as Spanish Influenza, Ebola and Corona virus, the most recent one has had a challenge on mass testing of their infections and spread. Available medical personnel a…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder of elderly humans; it is the sixth leading cause of death worldwide. The Brain Guide Application proposed in this projec…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The ambition for our research was to test out if the at home monitoring device is reliable as the market advertiser's it to be. Many people around the world suffer from chronic joint pain wh…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
CS-M: Monitoring Cardiovascular Disease (CVDs) with Heart Sounds. CVDs are the number 1 cause of mortality worldwide and claim more than 17.9 million lives annually. But 80% of these mortali…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Scleral Buckling Surgery is a common eye procedure ophthalmic surgery residents need to master. However, they lack low-cost, quality training models. Surgical simulators are one way to pract…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Hypoxia is the state of insufficient tissue oxygenation to support homeostasis that, if untreated in time, can lead to tissue damage and organ failure. However, there is a lack of accurate a…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The fascia is a layer of connective tissue that connects to most internal structures of the human body to keep them in place. Myofascial tightness is tightness within the fascia that connect…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) are a common cause of paralysis, rendering patients unable to utilize motor functions. In particular, cervical SCIs cause tetraplegia, one of the most severe form…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
To tackle the challenges of targeted drug delivery, we created three different milli-robotic approaches. To improve overall locomotion efficiency and load bearing capabilities during deliver…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The traditional way of using manual assistance for rehabilitation can’t satisfy the requirement of rehabilitation market due to limited number of rehabilitation therapists, high labor costs,…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a form of neuromodulation used to treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, migraines, Parkinson's Disease, anxiety, and PTSD. Outside of cl…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes is a chronic condition that devastates approximately 10% of the global population, and yet technology aimed at its management is invasive, costly, and solely monitors blood-glucose…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Visual impairment, more severely known as blindness, has been a persistent problem in the world of biomedical sciences in which an effective, modern, and universal solution has yet to be int…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Nowadays, rehabilitation engineering and biomedical engineering are always creating new techniques in order to improve people's quality of life. When talking about foot drop or steppage gait…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Introducing an innovative solution to a long-standing problem: Aphasia. This debilitating condition, commonly suffered by stroke victims, severely impairs verbal communication abilities by d…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The growing demand for patient organs has revealed 3D bio-printing as a potential solution for the global organ shortage. However, a deeper fundamental understanding of vascularization is re…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Myopia is the most common eyesight problem faced by most students. India has more than 10 million cases yearly, affecting almost 30-40% of the population. It is expected that by 2050 it will…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Metastatic (migratory) cancer accounts for 90% of cancer deaths, yet not much is known about the specific factors driving tumor migration, including interstitial flow. In order to characteri…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
A recent CDC study showed that 3 in 5 teenage girls are depressed, a rise from last year. What’s also on the rise? Iron Deficiency Anemia. Teenage girls are 2 times more likely to be depress…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Commonly used cancer treatments are nonspecific and cytotoxic to healthy cells. As an alternative, bacteria can be exploited for the targeted delivery of therapeutics as some can associate t…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Recent studies have found that estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer cells exhibit enhanced proliferation and drug resistance when grown in a 3D environment when compared to 2D cell…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Heat exhaustion is not just the leading cause of death in student-athletes it is quickly becoming the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S. One of the keyways to help prevent h…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Hemiplegia is a type of paralysis where one side of the body experiences a loss of motor function. Hemiplegics may be confined to a wheelchair, which presents health issues such as low bone…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Stroke is the leading cause of disability in the United States and the fifth leading cause of death worldwide. An ischemic stroke occurs when a blockage cuts off the blood supply in the brai…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial disease mainly affecting the lungs, is the leading infectious cause of mortality worldwide before COVID-19. To prevent TB from spreading within the body, which…