The two ChemE entrepreneurial design teams - 6ixS and Zwitterink - excelled at the inaugural Health Innovation Challenge on March 3.
The teams pitched their ideas to over 90 judges in this tradeshow-style event hosted by the Foster School's Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship.
Congratulations to team 6ixS for winning the runner-up $1000 "Judges Also Really Liked" Award! See the event blog for the list of teams.
6ixS
6ixSLe Zhen, PhD candidate, UW Chemical Engineering
Nicholas Zhen Hung, undergraduate, UW Chemical Engineering
Isaac Lam, undergraduate, UW Chemical Engineering
Jason Dang, undergraduate, UW Chemical Engineering
Melissa Gile, undergraduate, UW Chemical Engineering
Ellyce Shulman, MBA candidate, UW Foster School of Business
Anna Nordstrom, MBA candidate, UW Foster School of Business
Prof. Buddy Ratner, faculty advisor
6ixS Vascular Solutions utilizes a breakthrough material to make lifesaving, long-lasting, off-the-shelf and low-cost synthetic blood vessel replacements that simultaneously provide solutions to narrowing, clotting and infection by optimizing healing.
Team 6ixS carrying their message on their backs with fitting crimson shirts.
Team Zwitterink explaining their technology, with purple gloves on hand.
Read more about the two teams in the original news posting here.