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Spotlight on 2008 Award Winners

First Place: Developing Minds Software

Dawn Gregg, Michael Erskine, Mason Gregg, Colette Hanley, Lynn Sargent

Developing Minds Software offers unique web-based software services designed to address the needs of families and educational institutions challenged with serving the developmentally disabled. Their product, DDtrac, is a Web 2.0 application that allows for the efficient capture and analysis of special education data.

2nd Place:

Gobai Culturally Inspired Cuisine

Kaidan Nguyen

Gobai will create fresh and healthy Vietnamese-inspired dishes made with quality ingredients that are fresh from local farms to the customer’s plate. Gobai is designed to reawaken the fast casual restaurant industry with recipes that are nutritious and eclectic, that is served with the speed of traditional fast-food restaurants. 

 

3rd Place:

Snoasis Medical Inc.

Robert Tofe

Snoasis Medical is a medical device company developing regenerative products for use in dental surgery.  This includes membranes composed of placental tissue and a wound healing agent derived from recently expired human banked blood.  All of the products are expected to offer significant advantages over current treatment options. 

 

Finalist and Best Interntaional Award:

Healthy Travels

Raj Joseph

Healthy Travels is a global healthcare service enabler that offers a comprehensive medical tourist solution by providing a premier healthcare experience outside of the United States coupled with unique first class travel opportunities during the recuperation and recovery phase .

 

Finalist and Best Nonprofit Award:

Robotics Assisted Gait Training

Timothy S. Nicklas

Robotics Assisted Gait Training is a nonprofit business plan for installing and operating a system that provides rigorous, customized, and monitored gait training utilizing modern technology that implements tried and trued therapies for patients with gait impairment.

 

Finalist and Best Bioscience Award:

Tissue Genetics

Jeffrey Holt, M.D., James Bowman, Kimberly Gibson, Vanessa Clark

Tissue Genetics is a biomedical diagnostic company that identifies patients with genetic diseases, helping to determine their optimum course of care.  Their novel diagnostic kits will establish a new paradigm for screening for hereditary diseases.

 

 

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