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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.
Beacon Bio

Improving hearing and healing by restoring eardrums with regenerative grafts.
Beaver Health, Inc.

Engaging older loved ones in stimulating, culturally responsive activities to boost cognition and quality of life.
BonePixel

Building a fully-automated, AI-powered platform to assess hip pathology in 3D, using routinely collected clinical data.
Broadleaf HEA

Providing evidence-based health and education interventions for children in rural India that produce tangible improvements to participant’s wellbeing.
Chaku Foods

Creating wealth for smallholder farmers in Africa while minimizing climate risk.
Day Zero Diagnostics

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

Developing an AI-empowered movement analysis system that helps physical therapists and athletic trainers better treat physical health.
GC Therapeutics

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

Making high-quality rehabilitation available to anyone recovering from a neurological or cardiovascular condition.
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.
Limax Biosciences

Treating internal and external injuries with a stretchable adhesive hydrogel.
Manifold Bio

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

Building a self-renewing air cleaner that performs better and delivers with 10x the filter life of a typical HEPA system.
My Dental Key

An online platform that helps students learn clinical and preclinical dentistry.
Myspeech

Enabling access to high-quality speech therapy through a technology platform.
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.
PlenOptika

Enabling eye care for all with the QuickSee — a simple, affordable device that prescribes eyeglasses at the push of a button.
SoWork

Creating a smart virtual office that gives remote teams efficiency, presence, spontaneity, and connection.
SurgiBox

Making surgery safer for both patients and healthcare providers around the world through innovative technology, co-developed with users and centered around patient needs.
Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc.

Transforming the discovery of novel drugs addressing targets in the GPCR family.
The Apprentice Project

Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide personalized learning experiences and support to students across India.
THRIVE!

Building a software platform that helps state and local government agencies—including school systems—create budgets that mitigate disparities experienced by low-income residents and people of color.
Transcera

Transforming chronic disease treatment through improved biologic drug delivery.
Tuverl

An app that makes public transport cheaper and more accessible to millions of commuters across Africa.
Vacuum-Assisted Wound Therapy Affordable For All (VATARA)

Providing low-cost, negative pressure wound therapy for everyone.
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.
X-COR Therapeutics

Creating the first commercially-available extracorporeal CO2 removal device that uses ultra-low-blood flow to treat patients with hypercarbic respiratory failure.

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