BYO Innovation Challenge 2024

Challenge Overview

On July 25th, the Faculty of Medicine and Health’s Ignite Your Impact team, led by Prof Phoebe Phillips and Dr Sam McAllery, in partnership with Founders, proudly hosted the first of its kind, BYO Innovation Challenge.

This challenge was co-designed specifically to meet the unique needs of our Faculty, inviting innovators to bring their health ideas and solutions to the table for a one-day immersive workshop that focused on refining concepts, ideating, prototyping, testing ideas and pitching.

Twelve teams participated, each with uniquely innovative ideas and solutions.

Showcase Overview

On the 6th of August, eight teams, selected from the initial 12, took to the stage to present their innovative solutions. The showcase was a competition and celebration of the incredible talent and innovation brewing within UNSW’s Medicine and Health.

This event highlighted the successful and impactful collaboration between the Faculty of Medicine and Health and Founders, demonstrating their shared commitment to advancing health innovation.

Our Expert Panel

A special thanks to our wonderful judges, Prof Sallie Pearson (Health Systems Research Theme Lead), Dr Sam van Bohemen (CEO of Nuroflux), and Priscilla Tan (Prototypes Manager), who faced the difficult task of selecting the winning teams.

1st Prize and People’s Choice: Oncorover

George Sharbeen
Aparna Raina
Shirley Ma
Shannon Chiang
Keilah Garcia Netto

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2nd Prize: Silent Covid

Yuan Zhang
Chantelle Ahlenstiel
Tony Kelleher
Scott Ledger

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Pitch Presenters:

Andleeb Hanif, ABLOCKS
Quanbin Dai, AZX Biotech
Maria Tsoli, Cancer Detectives
George Sharbeen, Oncorover
Yuan Zhang, Silent Covid
Riccardo Cazzoli, Valetudo Medtech
Allison Carter, Vax 4 Health
Jonathan Li, Wayz

And finally….

Thank you to all the participants who showed such courage in presenting their innovative ideas. Thank you to our talented mentors who provided vital guidance for our innovators helping to shape and refine their solutions.

We would also like to recognise the invaluable contributions of Soph Kloosterman from UNSW M&H Research Support, whose efforts were essential to the success of the event. A special thank you to the Founders team, especially Kristen Phillips and Georgia Lyons, for their key role in organising the event.

Additionally, the contributions of Prof Phoebe Phillips, Dr Sam McAllery, and Dina Titkova from the Ignite Your Impact team were instrumental in bringing the BYO Innovation Challenge to life.

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For any enquiries about the BYO Innovation Challenge, please contact Soph Kloosterman at s.kloosterman@unsw.edu.au.