Join us on Monday 13th March for our interactive Dragon’s Den style event to find the winner of our annual Student Challenges Competition.
The competition provides a platform for students based in the UK to showcase their global health research idea and win up to £5000 to develop it further. Runners-up and audience choice prizes will also be awarded.
The Finalists
The seven finalists are, in no particular order:
- Jez Lim Marston and Robert M. Learney (Imperial College London) – Kidney Function Monitoring Device for Early Diagnosis of AKI
- Salman Malik (University of Manchester) – MicroSpray Technologies – Aerosol Generation-based Particle Manufacture
- Laura Mitchell, Chun Man Chow, Emily Groves, Raghd Rostom and Simon Wiegrebe (University of Cambridge) – OpenDiagnostics
- Azuolas Ciukas and Mantas Matjusaitis (University of Edinburgh) – CellAge
- Kitty Liao and Abellona U (University of Cambridge and Imperial College London) – smart last-mile vaccine cooling & delivery system (Ideabatic)
- Mingxia Wang (Imperial College London) – Non-invasive intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring
- Stephanie Hodgson, Istvan Ferrier, Vikram Palit and Max Renna (Imperial College London) – CorVision
The ‘Dragons’
Confirmed ‘Dragons’ are as follows:
- Dr Richard Smith – IGHI Adjunct Professor, Chairman of Patients Know Best, Director of the UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative, former Editor of the British Medical Journal and Chief Executive of the BMJ Publishing Group;
- Professor Simone Buitendijk – Imperial Vice-Provost for Education;
- Dr Will Cavendish – Strategy Lead, Applied at DeepMind;
- Dr Mark Hammond – Founder, Deep Science Ventures.
Have your say
Fancy yourself as a Dragon? During the event, you will be given the opportunity to participate and judge the event with our audience choice award. The Dragons will decide who wins the top prize of £5000 and the £2500 runner up prize and you, the audience, will decide who wins the third prize of £1000.
Join the debate
The event will also host a live Twitter feed. To join the debate, use the hashtag #IGHIStudentChallenges in your tweets.
Don’t forget to register!
Register via Eventbrite here.
Please note, tickets will be issued on a first come, first serve basis, so book now to avoid disappointment.
We very much look forward to seeing you at our event and to us finding out who will be crowned winner of Student Challenges 2016/17!