The Pava Marie LaPere Center for Entrepreneurship at JHU recently held their annual ‘President’s Venture Fellowship and Innovation & Entrepreneurship Challenge.’ The Pava center is committed to fostering novel ideas/solutions and empowering students who are prospective change-makers. Here at CBID, we are so excited to share that the CBID team ‘Visilant’ received the ‘Alumni Ventures […]

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We are so incredibly excited to highlight the CBID team SinuStim for their recent first place victory at the American Rhinologic Society Summer Sinus Symposium Shark Tank! CBID students Sandhya Tiku and Oriol Cuxart Pérez represented SinuStim at this event, and delivered a pitch for the startup’s novel innovation in Chronic Rhinosinusitis. At this Shark […]

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CBID is incredibly excited to announce the CBID ’25 Abell Fellows! Each year, fellows are chosen based on what potential their projects hold, and their ability to display such. This year’s fellows are as follows, with photos in corresponding order: 1. Saardhak Bhrugubanda2. Sofía García del Barrio Cervera3. Jay Tailor4. Sabrina Zhou5. Natasha Mody6. Santiago […]

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We are so proud of NeuroPrima, a CBID team designing a novel implant which eliminates the need for a secondary surgical procedure in response to severe Traumatic Brain Injury, by providing brain decompression and skull reconstruction. They recently competed in the Open League business plan competition at Washington State University; and placed first! They have […]

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Recently, CBID program director, Dr. Soumya Acharya was featured on an episode of the podcast ‘Socializing with Scientists.’ On this episode, Dr. Acharya gave listeners insight into how his childhood was sprinkled with meaningful events in science, all culminating to the incredible and well-achieved person he is today. In this episode, listeners got to understand […]

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Today, June 2nd marked day one of the CBID bootcamp for our 2025-2026 cycle. During this first day, CBID teams were able to introduce themselves, and meet their fellow peers for the year. They were familiarized with the CBID Design/Philosophy they will be optimizing, and learned more about problem framing, and how to approach unmet […]

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We are so proud of the 2025 CBID class, and excited to congratulate their graduation! Their diligent and hard work this year has been inspiring to watch as they tackled, and broke down real-world issues in healthcare. We are so excited to send this cohort into the next phase of their lives, and have so […]

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April 22nd marked the Pava Marie LaPere Center for Entrepreneurship’s Spring 2025 Fuel Demo Day! During this event, 10 ventures pitch their ideas to a panel of informed judges with the chance to win significant funding! CBID is proud to announce that ‘SinuStim’, one of our CBID student lead teams, was awarded the ‘Judges Prize’ […]

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Tuesday April 29th was design day as affiliated with JHU Whiting School of Engineering! At this premier event, Whiting is able to show off the innovative works of Hopkins engineering students. The day was divided between student presentations, a keynote session, poster session, and awards presentation. JHU CBID teams presented their work both in the […]

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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 […]

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