The 25 President’s Innovation Challenge Finalists across five tracks are:
Health & Life Sciences
A-SEP: Providing an affordable, accessible, and accurate point of care diagnostic kit for sepsis.
Ilios Therapeutics, Inc.: Leveraging molecules with strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties to prevent and counter neurodegeneration.
Limax Biosciences: Developing a super flexible adhesive hydrogel for advanced bleeding.
Trial Atlas: Making clinical trials more patient-centered by helping sponsors recruit, engage, and retain trial participants.
Vacuum-Assisted Wound Therapy Affordable for All (VATRA): Providing an effective, low-cost, negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) alternative to traditional NPWT devices.
Open
Cardinal LCA: An early-stage digital tool for architects that analyzes the environmental impacts of design decisions.
CashEx: A currency exchange platform that leverages AI to help migrants transfer money with zero fees.
Hue: A beauty tech platform that recommends the best makeup products for shoppers’ skin tones.
Keto Kind: A clinical nutrition brand making science-backed products to support metabolic health in patients.
Trove Market: Diverting excess shelf-stable, packaged food away from landfills and into consumers’ homes.
Social Impact
CassVita Inc.: A technology that increases the shelf-life of cassava, a nutritive but rapidly deteriorating root vegetable, from three days to 18 months.
GarboCarbo Inc.: Capturing carbon dioxide from power plant emissions by creating a long-term carbon storage byproduct (limestone).
MiKashBoks (MKB): A digital social finance platform designed to support self-help, peer-based group saving and lending.
Slam Out Loud: Using the visual and performing arts to enable children from disadvantaged backgrounds to find their voice.
Stuttering Scholarship Alliance: Building the first framework to provide affordable and effective stuttering therapy.
Alumni & Affiliates: Health & Life Sciences
Adaptilens: Developing an intraocular lens that will allow people to have clear near, intermediate, and distance vision without glasses or contacts.
BioDevek: Improving clinical outcomes following internal surgeries through degradable biomaterials.
Holistick Medical: Developing a flexible device for atraumatic treatment of common cardiac defects.
Kern Systems: Leveraging enzymes and cutting-edge software to store digital data in DNA at scale.
M13 Therapeutics: Harnessing the phageome to deliver any therapeutic gene to any target cell.
Alumni & Affiliates: Open
Aurie: Building a reusable intermittent catheter system to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people living with urinary retention.
Kiwi Biosciences: Developing novel enzymes to make food a painless experience for at least one in eight people who cannot enjoy the most common and nutritious foods.
Delfina: Offering pregnant women and their physicians a real-time intelligent monitoring system to predict fetal risk and guide clinical decisions.
Imago Rehab: Enabling superior recovery outcomes for stroke survivors through a combination of home-use wearable robotics and digital health.
Metric: Providing analytics software to help private market investors measure their portfolio’s environmental, social, and governance performance.