HACKING DERMATOLOGY 2019
HACKATHON - SEPTEMBER 13-15, 2019
PITCH COMPETITION - FEBRUARY 4, 2020


Final Pitch Competition: February 4, 2020, 5:30pm - 9:00pm
CIC, 245 Main St, Cambridge, MA

The winning teams from the September Hacking Dermatology event will compete alongside new teams for additional grant funding - a total of $60k will be distributed.

New teams, both those who participated in the hackathon and those who did not, are invited to apply for entry to the Final Pitch Competition by completing this application.


Hacking Dermatology: September 13-15, 2019
District Hall, 75 Northern Ave, Boston, MA

The theme for this event was Precision Medicine in Dermatology.

On September 15, the top five teams were each awarded grants in the amount of $5k. The winning teams were (in alphabetical order):

CureSore: An at-home patient monitoring tool that utlizes technology with a sticker for disease progression analysis.

Flare: Continuous non-invasive monitoring of skin properties (e.g., hydration, pH) to support patients in tracking their eczema to help them predict disease flares.

Relief: A mobile app using patient input and geolocation data to identify and predict flares based on external triggers.

Skin on a chip: Embedding a patient's skin cells on a chip to evaluate the safety and efficacy of multiple medications to determine an optimal therapy.

WartPatch: A painless microneedle-based immunotherapy delivery device for treating warts, especially in children.


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