Spheric Bio's implants grow inside the body once injected, to fit within the patient's unique anatomy. This could improve stroke prevention because existing implants are one-size-fits-all devices that can fail to fully block the most at-risk regions, leading to leakages and other complications. 'Our mission is to transform stroke prevention by building personalized medical devices directly inside patients' hearts,' said Connor Verheyen PhD '23, a postdoc in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST), who made the winning pitch. Spheric took home the event's $25,000 first-place prize. The second-place prize went to nurtur, another MIT alumnus-founded startup, that has developed an artificial intelligence-powered platform designed to detect and prevent postpartum depression. Last summer, nurtur participated in the delta v startup accelerator program organized by the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. The audience choice award was given to Merunova,...
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