We are pleased to announce our five semi-finalists and their concepts for the sanofi-aventis U.S. Innovation Challenge: Data, Design, Diabetes.
Earlier this week, a panel of expert judges reviewed an amazingly diverse and creative set of submissions to choose the most innovative data-driven and human-centered concepts aimed at helping people living with diabetes. Here is a brief introduction to the five leading concepts and their respective teams:
- Wellfra.me
Wellfra.me is a platform that empowers diabetics to make a meaningful change and reduce their risk of complications. Wellfra.me personalizes publicly available data and creates individualized challenges and rewards to put diabetics back in control.- Team leader: Trishan Panch – Founder and Clinical Lead at My Care Apps
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Ginger.io
Ginger.io transforms a mobile phone into an automatic self-monitoring tool for tracking real-time movement patterns and social interactions passively, without user input.- Team leader: Karan Singh – Co-founder; MIT Sloan MBA and Harvard Medical SM Candidate
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Great Races Community Projects
Great Races Community Projects gets people moving through Amazing Race-style competitions to find QR codes planted in local venues.- Team leader: Jennifer Chong – Researcher at MIT Innovations in International Health; Consultant at Oliver Wyman
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Chewable
Chewable is a mobile gaming service that helps people with diabetes understand the best food choices, and tracks their progress toward meeting healthy goals through food interactions.- Team leader: Girish Gupta – EIR at ENIAC Ventures
- Location: New York, New York
- HopeUnwounded
HopeUnwounded is a website combining uploaded patient data (pictures, glucose + insulin levels) with analyses of anonymous hospital data to prevent, diagnose, and treat diabetic foot injuries.- Team leader: Stephen Racunas – Grass Roots Science
- Location: New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Each semi-finalist has been awarded $20,000, and a team of experts to virtually mentor them as they each turn their concept into a prototype over the next month.
We will detail the progress of the five semi-finalists throughout this process, leading up to the Data, Design, Diabetes Demo Day in mid-September.
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