April 21, 2007
Graduate students of the UCSF/UC Berkeley Graduate Group won top places in this year’s UCSF Global Life Science Innovation Competition.During the competition, each team presented its pitch describing novel technologies to a distinguished panel of 18 judges representing venture capitalists, angel investors, law firms, and pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
First place was taken by Vasotech, a company formed to develop tissue-engineered, small-diameter vascular grafts for vascular surgery. The team is led by BioE Ph.D. candidate Craig Hashi, of Associate Professor Song Li’s lab, and includes Katie Filaski, Kyle Kurpinski, Rebecca Botelho, Randall Janeiro, and Liam Holt.
Second place also went to a BioE team, Parada Imaging, a UC Berkeley group developing an innovative technology to deliver low-cost, high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the ability to image metal implants for the masses. The team includes Patrick Goodwill and advisor Associate Professor Steve Conolly.
The Bioengineering teams of Tanner Nevill and Nick Toriello, called SeroNostics, and Sean HJ Kim, Jesse Engelberg, Shahab Sheikh-Bahaei, Sunwoo Park (UCSF Postdoc) were also finalists.
Congratulations to all the winners!