Friday April 25th marked the 2025 HopStart startup pitch competition. This annual event challenges students to deliver professional business pitches focused upon their novel solution to an ongoing problem in medicine, to relevant industry leaders/experts.

CBID is so incredibly proud to announce that Veina Vascular; a design team comprised of students at CBID placed first in the Medical Technology and Life Science Ventures category!

Isabella Menendez and Sabine Meurs from CBID, are the founders of Veina Vascular, and upon reflection from this win, are deeply grateful to what HopStart meant to them, and how this support can empower their team. They are mindful and thankful for the mentorship and support they have received along this journey stating:

‘A huge thank-you to our HopStart mentor, Karl Ginter, and to Len Foxwell for their unwavering support. We’re also grateful to our mentor Dr. Lukas Ramcharran for his clinical direction, and to everyone at the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design and the Pava Center for Entrepreneurship for their guidance.’

Veina Vascular is reinventing blood draws in the Emergency Department, minimizing pre-analytical errors, cutting costly retests, and reducing treatment delays by targeting hemolysis (the breakdown of red blood cells during the draw). Here at CBID, we are so happy to be a part of their journey and highlight this accomplishment. This is a huge achievement. We wish them only the best moving forwards, and cannot wait to see + support their next steps.

They are photographed below! 🎊

Check out their LinkedIn/Congratulate Them:

Isabella’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabella-menendez-896b04187/
Sabine’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabinemeurs/
Read more about HopStart: https://engineering.jhu.edu/cle/hopstart/

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