CIMIT $150,000 Engineering Prize Awarded to CollaboRhythm Team
CIMIT Prize competition recognizes student research using novel technologies to address major diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in primary healthcare. Boston, MA - CIMIT has announced the winners of the first CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare. This new nation-wide annual competition is designed to encourage graduate and undergraduate engineering students to develop creative technological solutions that have potential to enhance the delivery of care at the frontlines of medicine. Each year for the next 5 years, CIMIT will provide $400,000 in prizes to the best of projects. The 2009 CIMIT Prizes have been awarded to student teams at four universities: University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University; MIT and Princeton. The four winning projects were selected from the ten finalists chosen last February from a field of 78 proposals.