2023 Columbia Biomedical Technology Accelerator (BIOMEDX) Pitch Day
Welcome to the 2023 Columbia BiomedX Pitch Day
Please join us for the culminating event of the 13-week Lab-to-Market Life Science Accelerator Bootcamp focused on translating Columbia University faculty-led innovations from the lab to the clinic.
The event is a great opportunity to hear presentations from innovative Columbia faculty-led biomedical research teams developing devices, software, and platform technologies to improve health outcomes. Teams have engaged through a series of lectures and workshops on a variety of commercially relevant topics including Market Sizing, Stakeholder Analysis, Regulatory & Reimbursement, Pitching 101, and Financing and Business models.
Schedule
8:30AM
Welcoming Remarks from Program Staff
Meghan Pinezich, PhD
Program Manager, BiomedX
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
8:40AM
Keynote Address
Sam Sia, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Director, SEAS Entrepreneurship
Vice Provost, Fourth Purpose and Strategic Impact
X. Edward Guo, PhD
Professor and Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering
8:50 – 9:15AM
FASTr: Mobile Based AI to Accelerate Stroke Recognition
PI: James Noble, MD, MS
Presented by: Nirav Shah, MD
9:15 – 9:40AM
Stool-based host RNA profling for gut disease diagnosis and monitoring
PI: Harris Wang, PhD
Presented by: Yiming Huang
9:40 – 10:05AM
Optimization of personalized T cell based immunotherapy by characterization of morphology
PI: Lance Kam, PhD
Presented by: Xin Wang
10:05 – 10:30AM
Massively multiplexed qPCR for genome-scale screening and diagnostics
PI: Wei Min, PhD
Presented by: Zhilun Zhao, PhD
10:30 – 10:45AM
Networking Break
10:45 – 11:10AM
Rapid point-of-care assays for detection of poliovirus and enterovirus D68
PI: Nischay Mishra, PhD
11:10 – 11:35AM
MCI-ED Screen: A Speech-Processing Algorithm for Automatic Screening of Black Women Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Dementia in Home Healthcare Setting
PIs: Maryam Zolnoori, PhD
11:35AM – 12:00PM
CardiAIc: AI for better cardiac arrhythmia therapy
PIs: Christine Hendon, PhD & Deepak Saluja, PhD
12:00 – 12:25PM
Ecological momentary assessment/intervention based mHealth app as treatment for post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2
PI: Lawrence Purpura, MD, MPH, TM
12:30PM
Adjourn for invited guests, closed door judging session