Top row from left: Siddharth Iyer, Mathias Insley, Eric Lin. Bottom row from left: Jasmine Hu, Diane Lee
Students Win “Cure it!” Prize The Lemelson-MIT nationwide program recognizes and inspires young STEM inventors. This year, they awarded $75,000 to three undergraduate teams and three individual graduate student inventors in several categories, which include healthcare, transportation and mobility, food/water and agriculture, and consumer devices.
their work, the invention’s potential for commercialization or adoption, and youth mentorship experience.
The team’s invention draws attention to treating hemorrhages and embolisms that occur during surgery. Internal bleeding affects millions of people worldwide, and the only current solution is to use platinum coils, which Team Augeo, which includes Siddharth Iyer, is expensive, difficult to use, and does not Jasmine Hu, Mathias Insley, Diane Lee, and universally fit every blood vessel size. Augeo’s Eric Lin, are materials science and engineer- innovative flexible and inexpensive spongeing undergraduate students at The INBT and like material can quickly expand to many were awarded $10,000 under the “Cure it!” times its size by filling with blood, resulting in category. This category recognizes healthcare a low cost, simple solution that permanently technology-based inventions. Winners were stops bleeding in the many blood vessel sizes selected based on the overall inventiveness of throughout the body. Go to inbt.jhu.edu and watch the video about team Augeo’s invention.
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