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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.
Adolescent Health Champions

Using peer-to-peer education to train adolescents in India in critical health topics.
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.
Base Operations

Aggregating, visualizing, and interpreting threat data to help organizations anticipate disruptions around the world — keeping their people, assets, and operations safe.
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.
Broadleaf HEA

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

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

Creating packaged foods made of edible insects as a healthier, more environmentally sustainable alternative to other sources of protein on the market.
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.
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.
Mark43

Empowering communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all.
PIVOTtheWorld

A mobile app revealing what places looked like in the past — showing authenticated histories of locations (from everyday places to popular tourist attractions), through images, videos, and text-audio.
RapidSOS

Securely linking life-saving data from connected devices, apps and sensors to safety agents, 911 and first responders globally.
Rumi Spice

Bringing flavorful, ethically-sourced, and socially-responsible spices from Afghanistan to customers.
SoWork

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

Providing clean drinking water, clean air and clean energy to African households.
Stochastic

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

Integrating city data from multiple departments and systems into a single, easy-to-use platform.
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.
Upsolve

Creating free tools to help people dispute debt, negotiate debt, or file Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Virtudent

A telehealth solution for dentistry, expanding access to oral-health experts and improving the quality of dental care.

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