SAVE THE DATE: BU Students Pitch the Idea that Got Them to Google!
Ebola Hackathon – Inspired Team to Pitch Live at Google Wearables Challenge
Three BU SPH students Jessica Autrey, Shauna Biggs, and Kerlyne Jean – also known at Team Proxome – will be pitching their award winning idea, at BU, next Wednesday evening. The team met at the MIT Stop Ebola Hackathon and won first prize for their proposal of a hi-tech/low-cost sensor that monitors the heart rate and temperature Ebola patients.
Since winning the hackathon, they have been working with MGH Center for Global Health, CAMTech, International Medical Corps, and Medtronic to develop our product and get it into the field. In February they entered Proxome into the Boston University Global Health and Engineering Meet-Up Competition where we won first place in the “shark tank” pitch session and third place in the poster competition. On Thursday, April 23rd they are pitching their idea at the Google Wearables Challenge, and hope for another win!
Team Proxome also includes Adrian Gropper, MD, CTO of Patient Privacy Rights; Sean Doyle, a software engineer at MGH; Jim Wright, an electrical engineer with a background in developing wearable devices for military and medical applications.
