{"117871":{"#nid":"117871","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Team Sweeps Business Plan Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u201cMAID\u201d Team (Magnetically Assisted Intubation Device) of biomedical engineering undergraduates swept the Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition finals on March 9.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETeam MAID is composed of seniors Alex Cooper, Elizabeth Flanagan, Shawna Hagen and Jacob Thompson.\u0026nbsp; Their plan and presentation won first place in the Undergraduate Competition, 1st Place in the Overall Competition, Most Commercializable Plan and the Alumni Award in the poster session for total winnings of $42,500.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir win represents the first time a team of undergraduates has won the overall competition, which draws undergraduate and graduate students from across Georgia Tech. The Business Plan Competition is organized annually by Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMAID is a simplified approach to intubation that utilizes magnets to guide the endotracheal tube into the airway of a patient easily and quickly, with less risk and without the need for visualization. MAID has two components: the single-use magnetic stylet and the reusable guide magnet. The external guide magnet is placed above the cricoid cartilage of the patient. When the endotracheal tube with the magnetic stylet is inserted into the patient\u2019s mouth, it is pulled directly into the airway by the guide magnet, resulting in near effortless intubation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast year the team MAID also won second place in Georgia Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize competition, winning $10,000 cash and a patent application by the Office of Technology Licensing. In summer 2011, the Translational Research Institute for Biomedical Engineering \u0026amp; Science awarded the team a seed grant of $25,000 to for further prototype development of the device.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Saint Joseph Translation Research Institute has tested their functioning prototype on multiple human cadavers with considerable success. The Office of Technology Licensing filed a full non-provisional patent in March 2012. Currently, additional design work is being conducted to improve manufacturability and reliability. The MAID design concept to improve the safety and effectiveness of the intubation procedure began as a team design project in BMED 2300, Projects in Biomedical Engineering. Franklin Bost, Professor of the Practice in biomedical engineering, and Leanne West at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, continue to advise the MAID team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKevin Lewis, another biomedical engineering student, whose plan for \u201cCold Crate\u201d came in third in the Undergraduate Track of the Business Plan competition. Graduate student Melissa Li was a finalist for her team\u2019s CARDIAM device and the winner of a $10,000 services package for Most Innovative Technology. \u0026nbsp;The CARDIAM Team was also a co-winner in the Elevator Pitch Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWritten by Adrianne Proeller,\u0026nbsp;Wallace H. Coulter Dept.\u0026nbsp;of Biomedical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u201cMAID\u201d Team (Magnetically Assisted Intubation Device) of biomedical engineering undergraduates swept the Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition finals.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The \u201cMAID\u201d Team (Magnetically Assisted Intubation Device) of biomedical engineering undergraduates earns top prize."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2012-03-20 11:43:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:52","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"117881":{"id":"117881","type":"image","title":"Magnetically Assisted Intubation Device team","body":null,"created":"1449178256","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:56","changed":"1475894736","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:36","alt":"Magnetically Assisted Intubation Device team","file":{"fid":"194274","name":"11c2647-p1-354.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11c2647-p1-354_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11c2647-p1-354_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2396093,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/11c2647-p1-354_0.jpg?itok=oSqk1QoC"}}},"media_ids":["117881"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/fac_research\/centers_initiatives\/bpc\/","title":"2012 Business Plan Results"},{"url":"http:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/news_room\/news\/2012\/articles\/bpcwinners.html","title":"College of Management article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"27541","name":"College of Engineering; Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering; Emory; MAID"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}