When you’re imagining an entrepreneur championing better technology for female contraception, recent Georgia Tech biomedical engineering grad Idicula Mathew might not immediately seem to fit the profile. But once you talk to Mathew, it’s clear why he’s focusing his medtech startup on improving female birth control — like any good entrepreneur, he found a pain point […]
During a standard doctor’s appointment, a patient shares details of a condition or symptoms as the practitioner types up notes on a nearby computer. But multitasking is hard, and the patient experience may suffer as the physician balances dictation and listening. Pedro Teixeira and Ravi Atreya experienced this firsthand as medical students in Vanderbilt’s class of […]
“You talk about solving this big problem; why don’t you just go do it?” a Vanderbilt professor told entrepreneur Jessica Harthcock. That problem came out of Harthcock’s personal experience pursuing recovery following a gymnastics-induced spinal injury at age 17 that left her paralyzed from the chest down. “I wasn’t given any chance of recovery,” says Harthcock. […]
Sinead Miller was an Olympic-bound competitive road cyclist and member of the national USA Women’s Road Cycling team for a decade. But in 2010, during a race in the Netherlands, Miller crashed. The accident resulted in multiple injuries, including broken bones and a traumatic brain injury at just 20 years old. That life-changing moment led […]
At a hackathon last year, Georgia Tech students Manav Sevak and Kunal Naik paired up with Harvard medical student Nisarg Patel to form a team and solve a technical challenge. Following the event, the team decided they wanted to use their talents to tackle the issues behind medical adherence for chronic health patients. They founded Memora Health, a personal assistant platform for […]