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2025

President’s Innovation Challenge

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Adaptilens

Developing the first and only intraocular lens that responds to the eye's natural signal to focus, thus eliminating the need for eyeglasses or contact lenses.
Aperture Bio

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

Building a reusable, intermittent catheter system to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people living with urinary retention.
Beacon Bio

Improving hearing and healing by restoring eardrums with regenerative grafts.
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.
CashEx

Bringing global financial services closer to Africans.
CassVita Inc.

Using proprietary technology to foster prosperity for smallholder farmers in Africa.
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.
Hue

Developing technology to help beauty brands embed user-generated videos on their marketing channels.
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.
Myspeech

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

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

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

An app that detects online hate and gives users a second chance to reconsider the decision to post or send offensive messages.
SoWork

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

An enterprise platform for businesses to build, customize, and control their own AI.
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.
Transcera

Transforming chronic disease treatment through improved biologic drug delivery.
Vacuum-Assisted Wound Therapy Affordable For All (VATARA)

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