BETiC IIT-B launches Medical Device Hackathon - MEDHA 2019

Since 2014 the Biomedical Engineering and Technology incubation Centre BETiC at IIT Bombay COE Pune and VNIT Nagpur have brought doctors and engineers together for lowcost medical innovation and impactThe cycle of innovation begins with medical problems proposed by doctors and novel ideas generated by interdisciplinary teams of innovators at MEDHA Medical Device Hackathon Participants watch curated videos of clinical problems and team up Each team has doctors designers and engineers mechanical and electronicsThey brainstorm sketch and create innovative fabricated prototypes All teams presenting working prototypes receive prizes Top innovators win a chance to acquire advanced training and fellowship to materialise their ideas Till date 8 MEDHA have been conducted in various cities across MaharashtraThis year BETiC has collaborated with Haffkine Institute of Testing Research amp Training in Mumbai Venture Centre in Pune and GH Raisoni College of Engineering in Nagpur to host MEDHA on separate weekends in JulyMEDHA brings together doctors who pose unmet needs and engineers who are keen to work in healthcare field They work continuously over a weekend to create proofofconcepts of novel medical devices for diagnosis or treatment These ideas can be taken forward at various BETiC centers or other interested institutes to develop the products and take them to market through a startup company or licensing to industry In the last four years our team members have filed 50 patents and licensed 12 of them to startups or industry Many of these ideas originated in MEDHArdquo says Prof B Ravi the Founder of BETiCInterested candidates need to preregister before the 25th of June 2019 on the BETiC website by uploading their biodata and portfolio of creative work based on which they will be shortlisted interviewed and selected Selected candidates are required to pay a nonrefundable fee of Rs 1000Top stories of the dayMumbai receives cyclonic rain before monsoon hits around June 15Mumbai Esplanade holds key to heritage tag for whole precinctMumbai Crime Auto driver threatens to sever traffic cops head arrested in KharMumbai NEET toppers face in ads of 3 different classes raises hacklesMumbai Two die after auto crushed between dumper private bus on EEHMumbai Chaos alert as BMC shuts old bridges in Juhu and OshiwaraPoliticians to plant 9000 trees for the 3000 hacked over Metro 4 workDr Ram Puniyani To label me antiHindu is a carefully constructed prismMumbai doctors suicide Court proceedings in Dr Payal Tadvis case to be recorded on videoMumbai Crime IIT scholar who stalked woman for 5 years held in BiharBMC chief Praveen Pardeshi New zoo will help preserve Aarey betterSewri police arrest smart thieves discover plan to rob jewellery shopsMumbai Two kids and five dogs electrocuted in first showersNmami Agarwal Celebrity nutritionist who has trained Manushi ChhillarMumbai Rains City welcomes first heavy showers of monsoonMasaba Gupta looks gorgeous in allwhite ensembleWoman on flight opens emergency exit door mistaking it for toiletTanuja on the road to recovery Kajol shares a picture with motherMan stabbed to death by his friend over ludo gameWorld Cup 2019 Anushka Sharma cant stop praising husband Virat Kohlis onfield gestureYuvraj Singh receives a standing ovation from rumoured exgirlfriend Kim Sharma on his retirementYuvraj Singh Cricket taught me to fight fall dust myself and get upWorld Cup 2019 ICC needs to take a serious look at the LED bailsAn era ends with Girish Karnad last rites take place in BengaluruDino Morea and Shibani Dandekar spotted at an eatery in BandraCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates