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ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The fascia is a layer of connective tissue that connects the lower layers of an individual's skin to the bones, organs, muscles, nerves, and blood vessels. When tight, the fascia can restric…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Long-term cigarette smoking can cause brain atrophy and cognitive impairment. Similar results were observed with chronic use of e-cigarettes. Therefore, it is essential to understand the bra…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Lab-on-chip (LOC) technology is a developing nanotechnology that has promising applications in cell and tissue engineering. These devices must be hydrophilic, non-toxic, and inexpensive. Cur…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose: Surgical site infections cause significant morbidity and even mortality. Increase in wound pH has been correlated with infection and may identify infection before clinical symptoms…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Gastroparesis, characterized by slowed or absent gastric contractions, affects 1.8% of the population, presents with severe nausea, abdominal pain, a high mortality rate, and incurs high tre…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Spinal deformity is usually a symptom cause by scoliosis. The current method of treating such disease is through a brace that fits around torso and hip to force the spine to display the norm…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
This revolutionary solution uses multivariate machine-learning time-series models to detect freezing of gait (FoG) instances in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) based on acceleromet…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of global death, and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is its most common manifestation. Restoring perfusion to myocardial tissue in CAD often n…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly invasive malignant brain tumor with a low patient survival rate. Tumor cells multiply quickly into healthy brain tissue, making it difficult to remo…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) reveals lung function and helps diagnose many diseases. However, commercial EIT systems are expensive and bulky. Two-thirds of the world’s population, e…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Glaucoma, an eye disease that causes damage to the optic nerve, is the second-leading cause of blindness worldwide. Swift diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma is crucial to prevent any glauco…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Gynecological issues affect 90% of the female population worldwide, but due to the similarity in their symptoms with other diseases, they are misdiagnosed. This project focuses on developing…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
This project aims to develop an innovative solution to support individuals facing hearing impairment, irrespective of its onset during youth or later in life. A haptic vibration apparatus wa…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Hollow organ simulators have been introduced as alternatives to in-vivo testing to study disease mechanisms, therapeutics delivery, and medical devices. To date, these systems don’t allow fo…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, which affects nearly 200,000 patients annually in the United States, can be accompanied by joint bleeding but the effects of whole blood components a…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Walking, constituting a significant portion of human energy expenditure, has spurred research into ankle exoskeletons aimed at mitigating energy consumption. Various exoskeleton designs have…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Hemorrhage, excessive loss of blood that is expressed through eventual shock and death, is one of the leading killers worldwide. Current methods of preventing hemorrhage have many side effec…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Electroencephalograms (EEGs) are devices that offer a non-intrusive way to measure the electrical activity of the brain, with various applications such as monitoring neurological conditions.…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this initial project stage was to identify parameters needed for artificial lungs to be optimally functional in the human body and lay the foundation for future research regar…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Bed sores are a hidden, critical problem in society. The elderly population, stroke, coma, and spinal cord injury patients or any other immobile patients face this problem. Dead cells, forme…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The polarization of light, a fundamental property, finds extensive utility in various applications, notably in the realm of optical polarimetry. This project presents a novel approach utiliz…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
This project implements a novel detection system based on Rolling Circle Amplification (RCA) and Cas12a for miRNA biomarkers, and provides an efficient and cost-effective approach for the di…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Human Mesh Recovery is the challenge of predicting thousands of three-dimensional points on the human body surface, supporting critical applications in medicine, augmented reality, animation…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
According to the World Health Organization, The world’s biggest killer is ischaemic heart disease, responsible for 16% of the world’s total deaths. Since 2000, the largest increase in fatali…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The recording of neuronal action potentials from multiple neurons in humans has been a notable advancement for better understanding the nervous system. When our sensory nerves are activated,…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The human brain is one of the most unknown yet essential parts where many life threatening diseases such as strokes, Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and Parkinson's Disease (PD) begin silently. Br…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Approximately 50 million people globally rely on technology to replace a missing appendage, 80% of whom cannot afford current solutions and are left with costly, immobile, bulky prosthetics.…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Heart pumping is driven by cardiomyocyte (CM)contraction. However, there has been no direct approach to measuring CM beat. Fluorescent probes and electrical physiological techniques require…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering First Award
45% of people today are affected by oral diseases such as periodontal (gum) disease and dental caries (cavities). These can lead to tooth loss and have been linked to fatal diseases like can…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
People with spastic cerebral palsy sometimes develop contractures in the hands that cause the hand to close in on itself, reducing the range of motion (ROM). For children who use their hands…