The third and final Grand Prize winner of this year’s 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is Barbara McClatchey, mother of teenage boy with diabetes living in Collierville, Tennessee. She’s been a computer programmer for many years, and she and her husband both work for FedEx Corp. She’s also been heavily involved in her local JDRF chapter for 11 years, serving on the Board of Directors for the past seven.
Barb was honored for her concept called…
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You heard of Medingo, right? The Israeli start-up company whose new patch pump technology was recently acquired by Accu-Chek/Roche Diabetes?
Well, there’s another Israeli start-up that’s presumably hoping to beat a similar path. The company is called NiliMedix, based in the country’s Haifa District. They’re developing both “advanced insulin pump technology” — a supposedly smaller, lighter and more sophisticated pump than any on the market today — and also “innovative measures for the most accurate…
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Fabulous news today, Friends: We received just over 130 entries in this year’s innovation contest. And the time has finally arrived for…
2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge: Community Voting!
Remember, your votes will determine the winners of the Kids’ Category, and Most Creative Idea Category — who will each receive a $1,000 cash prize.
For the Grand Prize Category, your votes will determine our Top 10 finalists. You currently have 25 semi-finalist entries to browse at…
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AmyT on
March 31, 2010
Russian-born Michael Ostrovsky is a board certified anesthesiologist, practicing cardiac anesthesia here in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s one of the few MDs who’s not only extremely web-savvy, but is actually part of the Health 2.0 and Social Media movement as co-founder of Medgadget.com, sort of the “Engadget” of the medical technology world. Lucky for us, he’s also a fixture in the DiabetesMine Design Challenge competition.
Want to know what’s new with medical innovations?…
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AmyT on
March 18, 2010
I proudly present Samantha Katz as Exhibit A: the graduate student from Northwestern University who (along with project partner Erik Schickli) won last year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge Grand Prize, and was subsequently hired by Medtronic Diabetes to help design their next-generation insulin pumps. (See yesterday’s big Medtronic announcement.) Samantha is living proof that “crowdsourcing” exercises like this contest can shake Pharma’s big tree.
This year, Samantha is one of our expert judges for the 2010…
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