Students from all three of Cornell’s campuses – and 26 different universities – gathered in New York City over a packed weekend to brainstorm and develop options to well being care challenges.

The Health Hackathon, sponsored by Entrepreneurship at Cornell and the Weill Cornell Medicine Clinical and Translational Science Center, happened March 8-10 and included college students with backgrounds in drugs, enterprise, pc science, economics, engineering and different disciplines. It additionally featured a maker area hosted by Cornell Tech, outfitted with 3D printers and different supplies for prototyping.

Teams addressed the weekend’s affected person security challenges associated to remedy, affected person care, procedures/surgical procedure, an infection and diagnostic errors by creating bodily merchandise and digital options.

“There’s so much hope and brainpower here,” mentioned My Linh Nguyen-Novotny, assistant director of the Weill Cornell Medicine Clinical and Translational Science Center. “We love that Weill Cornell and Cornell encompasses all of these different schools and skill sets and what a perfect venue for these students to showcase what they can do and imagine where they might be in the future.”

This is the ninth 12 months for the well being hackathon, and Nguyen-Novotny mentioned no less than one Weill Medical employees member, who participated in a previous hackathon, took that concept and began an organization along with her gadget, which helps individuals who have misplaced their voice retrain their vocal system. Ami Stuart, director of hackathons for Entrepreneurship at Cornell, mentioned there are no less than a dozen corporations which have spun from these hackathons in the course of the previous 10 years, which have centered on a variety of industries.

The prime prize at this 12 months’s Health Hackathon of $3,000 for many impactful affected person care went to the Current Care group, who developed a patch bed-ridden sufferers may put on that points electrical stimulation to areas susceptible to strain ulcers, leading to a diminished prevalence of the ulcers.

Members of that group included Johnson Liu ’26 (ENG), Antranig Baghdassarian ’27 (ENG), Andrew Lee MD ‘25, Brianna Leung ’25 (ENG, University of Pennsylvania), Justin Liu ’27 (CS, Northeastern University) and Leah Lackey PhD ’28 (ENG).

“I’ve had this idea in the back of my mind for years,” Leung mentioned. “I was really just excited to send it out into the world of the hackathon and see if anyone else was interested.”

The group explored a number of the most typical causes of strain ulcers, together with lack of blood move, then devised a know-how to measure blood move and use electrical stimulation to extend it, Baghdassarian mentioned.

“Having people on our team from different backgrounds allowed us to narrow down what each person was good at from the beginning,” Lee mentioned. “From there, we could bounce ideas off each other, and it allowed us to look at the bigger picture.”

This was the primary hackathon expertise for Liu.

“I had an amazing experience. I made friends, we had fun with each other, and I learned a lot,” he mentioned. “I don’t have much experience in business, and I learned so much from the other students.”

Throughout the weekend, greater than 40 mentors helped the scholars in the course of the three days they spent on the Next Jump flagship workplace in Chelsea.

“We were able to receive so much feedback from people in the field who told us that this was a tangible idea that could work,” Leung mentioned.

“This has made me think that we can do it,” Baghdassarian  mentioned. “We have the ideas, and given the right resources and mentors and time, we can do something that matters.”

Other successful groups included:

Most Potential Impact, $500: IP Vision, software program that makes use of AI to detect instances of intimate accomplice violence in acute care settings and offers customized therapy and assist. Team members are: Lina Chihoub ’25 (University of Pennsylvania, CS), Elizabeth Madamidola MHA ’24 (Brooks), Emily Leventhal (postdoc, Icahn School of Medicine), Keshika Gopinathan MPH ’25 (Cornell VET), Mariam Rizvi ’26 (University of Pennsylvania, CS) and Raquel Castromonte MPH ’25 (CUNY).

Most Market Ready, $1,500: Fennostics, a one-step medical check to diagnose many widespread feminine vaginal well being points. Team members are: Bhavishya Agarwal MS ’24 (ENG), Justin Xiang ’27 (ENG), Edward Kim ’27 (Dartmouth, CS), Antonia Li ’24 (CALS), Rebecca Wang ’26 (University of Pennslvania, ENG), Urmila Sehrawat (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center analysis scholar)

Most Innovative, $2,500: Cedar, a wearable gadget to detects carotid artery points and stop stroke. Team members are: Claire Zhang ’26 (University of Pennsylvania, ENG), Duong Nguyen MPH ’24 (Columbia University), Ethan Tse PhD ’28 (Weill Cornell), Phuong Anh Dinh PhD ’28 (Columbia University), Reem Ulay ’24 (CUNY, ENG)

Best use of AI, $2,500: Team Rocket, a copilot for residence well being nurses to counter antagonistic medical results and supply medical reconciliation and automation. Team members are An Tran ’27 (Tufts University), Dany Alkurdi MD ’27 (Icahn School of Medicine), Ferdinand Gross MBA ’24, Khanh Do ’26 (Denison University, CS), Sally Zhao MS ’24 (Columbia, CS), Stephanie Nguyen ’26 (Columbia, CS)

The hackathon was made doable by means of the sponsorship of Johnson & Johnson, in addition to grants from the Patient Safety Technology Challenge, Engaged Cornell and dCommunity.