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2025

President’s Innovation Challenge

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Aperture Bio

Realizing orders-of-magnitude improvements in speed and sensitivity, Aperture rapidly analyzes proteins in whole cells to map immune interactions.
Bullseye Biosciences

By leveraging competition and evolution, Bullseye aims to transform therapeutics discovery and expedite the development of life-saving medicines.
Change The Tune

Closing the opportunity gap for youth in underserved communities by creating holistic, radical, and transformational extended learning experiences in partnership with communal organizations.
Coding it Forward

Empowering the next generation of mission-driven technologists by creating new pathways into public interest technology.
Concerto Biosciences

Discovering microbial ensembles for health via a patented screening platform.
Day Zero Diagnostics

Developing technologies to help control healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), where antibiotic resistant organisms can be especially dangerous.
GC Therapeutics

Using synthetic biology to program stem cells into any cell type with best-in-class efficiency, speed, and scalability.
InConfidence

A smart patch technology that delivers at-home posterior tibial nerve stimulation to treat urinary incontinence and overactive bladder.
InGel Therapeutics

Regenerative cell-therapy biotech aiming to treat people affected by blindness.
Kinnos

Adding color to disinfectants, visualizing surface coverage for more effective and efficient cleaning in healthcare settings.
MabLab

Building five-in-one test strips to detect the five deadliest lacing agents in recreational drugs.
Manifold Bio

Designing tissue-specific medicines in living systems from the start by combining high-throughput in-vivo studies with AI-guided protein design.
Oze

Supercharging business across Africa with simple tools, smooth payments, affordable capital, and digital shops.
Patient First AI

Designing an AI-powered app to help students submit their health forms effortlessly, providing real-time feedback on compliance status and addressing any issues that may arise.
Stratagen Bio

Transforming MRI scans into a tool for objective clinical decision-making and quantitative biomarker assessment.
TANGapp

An international, peer-to-peer transaction app with a social mission of financial inclusion for emerging markets.
Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc.

Transforming the discovery of novel drugs addressing targets in the GPCR family.
Transcera

Transforming chronic disease treatment through improved biologic drug delivery.
Umbulizer

Developing a reliable, low-cost, and portable device that can provide continuous ventilation to patients.
Vincere Health

Vincere Health was acquired by RVO Health. The company developed a healthcare technology platform to motivate people to smoke less, walk more, and live healthier lives.

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