Four senior bioengineering students at The University of Texas at Arlington have won the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Coulter College for Healthcare Innovation competition for their work on an early detection device for atrial fibrillation.
Brady Killham, Juan Ramirez, Jeannette Santos and Michael Ikefuna, all seniors in UTA’s Bioengineering Department, earned the Best Overall award for their plan to develop FibGuard, a wearable, non-invasive atrial fibrillation early detection device.
UTA competed against teams from Vanderbilt, Purdue, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Texas A&M, the University of Oklahoma and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, among others.
Previous winners include teams from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Florida, and Boston University. BMES hosted the competition, in partnership with Medtronic and The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, so students could learn and engage with professionals, expand their networks and foster collaborations with fellow students who share similar interests.
