HACKING DERMATOLOGY 2019 - FINAL WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
Final Pitch Competition: February 4, 2020 CIC, 245 Main St, Cambridge, MA Hacking Dermatology would like to thank all participants, mentors, judges, and partners for their spirit, expertise, and support. On February 4, 2020, the winning teams from the September Hacking Dermatology event competed alongside new teams for a total of $60,000 in additional grant funding. The winners are:
1st Place: WartPatch WartPatch, operating now as VeraDermics Incorporated, is developing a drug delivery platform for the painless delivery of immunotherapy past the stratum corneum for the purposes of local cutaneous immune stimulation. The initial unmet need being addressed by this innovative approach is the treatment of pediatric warts, a common and stigmatizing skin condition with no current effective and painless treatment options.
2nd Place: Flare Flare is a wearable device that can objectively detect and continuously monitor sub-clinical changes of skin barrier integrity and skin inflammation, which are the key tenets of eczema, and skin health in general. With state-of-the-art sensor technology and predicative analytics, Flare can detect eczema flare ups 12 hours before clinically observable signs of eczema. It can also accurately measure which skin care product/topical medications can restore skin barrier defect and decrease inflammation the most, thus guiding early and personalized treatment.
Tie for 3rd Place: OnDERMAND OnDERMAND Dermatology is a telemedicine practice specializing in remote dermoscopy. The practice has developed a specialized digital, wireless microscope (OnDERMAND Cam) for imaging of skin lesions. "DERM in a BOX" is a unique direct to consumer assembly of equipment and supplies for home use that recreates the in-person dermatologist office visit. OnDERMAND is based in New York City with operations in multiple states.
Tie for 3rd Place: TrackSore TrackSore provides a more accurate and convenient wound tracking and measurement system with intelligent wound progression/infection prediction.
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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