February 24, 2010
Bioengineering Ph.D. student Debkishore Mitra and his team were selected as one of ten finalists for the 2010 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare.
Offered by the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, the CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare competition is a national competition open to graduate and undergraduate engineering students from accredited engineering programs that seeks ideas for technologic innovations with great potential to support and catalyze improved delivery of healthcare at the frontlines of medicine.
CIMIT’s mission is to improve healthcare by seeking, selecting and supporting teams of clinicians and technologists. A goal in this competition is to encourage undergraduate and graduate engineering students to develop technological innovations that have potential to enhance patient care at that initial point of contact with the healthcare system. The CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare is made possible through a generous gift from the Gelfand Family Charitable Trust.
Debkishore, a student in Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s lab, and his partners have submitted the project, “Sepsis Diagnostics using iMDs”. They will now have the chance to compete for the final $150,000 prize.
Congratulations!