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ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Insulin Dependent Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects over 200 million people worldwide. Diabetic patients keep this disease under control by externally administrating Insulin hormo…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Though insulin pumps do allow better blood glucose control for diabetics, they are extremely expensive, ranging from more than $6,000 to $10,000 for the pump itself, and are not covered by i…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Urea cycle disorder (UCD) is a genetic disorder that affects 1 out of 35,000 births in the United States and has a 24% mortality neonatal rate. UCD is characterized by hyperammonemia, which…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Medical bracelets can save lives, but often lack the information for appropriate medical care. Will a dynamic QR code medical bracelet connected to a Bluetooth medical technology carrying ca…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cardiovascular and Arterial Diseases are leading causes of death and responsible for more than a fourth of US deaths. Current Detection Methods are only implemented when symptoms appear, by…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The Zika virus (ZIKV) is an infectious disease from the virus family Flavivirdea which is spread from the Aedes mosquitoes. Zika was originally isolated in the Ziika Forest of Uganda where i…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cancer is a disease where mutated cells often clump together to form a tumor. Current oncological treatments include chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which often harm healthy tissue and have d…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Total knee replacements slip out of alignment over time and need to be realigned using surgical techniques. More than 54,000 revisions are performed each year in the USA alone. The revision…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Contouring organs can be rigorous and time consuming. This problem is compounded by the fact that tumors morph and shift over time. The hypothesis of this project was that, using artificial…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a leading cause of childhood blindness. Recent developments have discovered that ROP can be characterized by intravitreal neovascularization (IVNV), which…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Lung cancer screening plays an important role in preventive care because cancer is curable when diagnosed at early stages. Although CT scan provides more medical information than normal ches…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Transplanting blood vessels frequently fails because the recipient rejects the donor arteries due to their genetic properties. In addition, many available synthetic products on the market ha…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Inexpensive and portable heart rate monitoring devices that are used for fitness applications only measure heart rate. On the other hand, medical-grade electrocardiogram (ECG) instruments me…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The study’s first objective is to analyze and improve movement range of a new hip prosthesis design using a gimbal or universal joint. A second objective is to determine load-carrying capaci…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2015 Summary Health Statistics, over 18 million Americans find it very difficult, or cannot, walk a quarter mile. Of those, 52%…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Lyme disease is a serious illness that affects approximately 300,000 people in the United States alone every year. It causes joint pain, arthritis, weakness, fatigue, and more seriously, cog…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease. Dengue virus is transmitted by female mosquitoes mainly of the species Aedes aegypti and to a lesser extent, Aedes albopictus. With more than…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to develop an app that can take a picture of a patient’s ear and successfully diagnose the presence of ear infection (otitis media) automatically, without t…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Slow wound healing increases the risk of serious bacterial infection. Yearly, 6.5 million people in the world are diagnosed with chronic wounds causing 265,000 fatalities. Previous research…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
In an electrocardiogram (ECG) the electrodes on the different parts of the body detect electrical impulses coming from different directions within the heart (Henderson, 2017). Hence, an ECG…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
The influenza A virus causes acute respiratory disease in humans. Each year, seasonal influenza affects 3-5 million people, with approximately 500,000 deaths worldwide. Thus, the rapid diagn…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
There is a great need for a more effective in vitro disease model of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) for use in high throughput drug screening. It was hypothesized that oleic acid a…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Tissue engineering (TE) aims to repair and regenerate damaged tissue by optimal combination of the patient’s own cells with an appropriate biomaterial. In this work, a novel biomaterial for…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Influenza virus remains a heavy economic burden and poses pandemic threats to public health worldwide, causing 250,000-300,000 deaths annually and 3-5 million cases of severe illness. In the…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The regeneration of bone defects caused by trauma, fracture, and disease is a significant clinical challenge for patients in the United States and around the world. Annually, the cost for bo…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Stroke is a very important medical and social problem. An important factor in the quality of life of a person who has suffered a stroke is the preservation hand's fine motor skills. The most…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Cancer treatment approach applying nanotechnology has many advantages compared to conventional chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Nanoshells are optically tunable core/shell nanoparticles t…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Majority of the collagen used for commercial products are extracted from cow and pig skins. However, with the emergence of fish collagen as a potential option of wound healing, tilapia skin…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Prosthetics, artificial limbs for amputees or those born with congenital defects, are often commercially priced high making them unattainable for many low income families and patients. Apply…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Our goal is to help more than 30% of the world’s population to sleep better by providing a non-invasive closed loop system for improving sleep that can be used at home. The system is built i…