Congratulations to three Mechanical Engineering students who will compete for the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE ® as part of Team Aezon. Theophilus Moss ‘16 and Ned Samson ’16 and Alex Kearns ’16 join thirteen other Johns Hopkins undergraduate students to create a portable, wireless device that fits in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. Team Aezon is collaborating with the developers of Biomeme, Symcat, Spirosmart, and Aegle to tackle this challenge.
Moss contributes to the team through creating important relationships with the corporate partners and serving as the team’s liaison to these organizations. Samson is the manager of the Student Innovation Lab in addition to helping via his knowledge of microfluidic research and CAD Design. Kearns, a recent transfer into the mechanical engineering major, supports the team with important components such as disease diagnosis and design.
Teams Aezon was created in September of 2012 and, under the leadership of JHU biomedical engineering major Tatiana Rypinski, has worked diligently since that time to make it to the finalist round. The team is up against nine other teams to win a $10 million prize. The next step in the competition begins in May of 2015 with consumer testing of each team’s product.
The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE ® is a global competition that challenges teams to stimulate innovation and integration of precision diagnostic technologies, helping consumers make their own reliable health diagnoses anywhere, anytime. Teams are challenged to develop a consumer-friendly, mobile device capable of diagnosing and interpreting a set of 15 conditions and also capturing vital health metrics. To learn more about the team, visit http://www.aezonhealth.com/.