A HUGE congratulations for the CBID start-up company Somnair, for their recent featuring on the Wall Street Journal titled ‘Startups Seek New Treatments for Obstructive Sleep Apnea.’ In this article by Brian Gormley, we got to know more about incredible work Somnair has been up to recently, and since their founding. There are currently several […]
Somnair is on a roll! The CBID startup Somnair, with co-founders Anders Sideris, Mitchell Turley, Phoebe Dijour and Shri Prabha Shivram who all received MS degrees in Biodesign at CBID, were recently featured on ‘citybiz’ as they have raised an incredible $4.3 Million in developing their novel technology in sleep apnea medicine. CityBiz featured the […]
We are excited to congratulate the co-founders of ‘Somnair Sleep’ Anders Sideris (CBID ’23), Mitchell Turley (CBID ’23), Phoebe Dijour (CBID ’23), and Shri Prabha Shivram (CBID ’23) in their being featured in the Johns Hopkins magazine! In this summer issue, author Julie Stewart details the process that the team took to identifying and engaging […]
Here’s a peek of what we’ve been up to! Recently, the CBID class of 2026 presented posters in various fields of medicine & healthcare and engaged in informative conversations with viewers at this symposium. In this event, they got to learn more about the problems they are approaching, from outsiders with potentially rich experiences, or […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
