{"id":1869,"date":"2022-05-31T19:18:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthtech.berkeley.edu\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:29:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:29:35","slug":"health-tech-colab-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthtech.berkeley.edu\/index.php\/2022\/05\/31\/health-tech-colab-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Tech CoLab\u2019s First Cohort Shows Off Innovations At Spring Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The inaugural cohort of the <\/span>Health Technologies Collaborative Laboratory<\/span><\/a> revealed its healthcare innovations on May 4, following a semester of ideating, breakthroughs, and collaborations.<\/span><\/p>

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The student teams demonstrated a wide variety of health tech innovations \u2014 from a device enabling four patients to safely share one hospital ventilator to a nanotechnology-based hardware with a variety of sensors that can record a patient\u2019s medication usage in real-time. A packed crowd at the Health Tech CoLab, headquartered at UC Berkeley\u2019s Blum Hall, included faculty, industry representatives, and notable Bay Area VCs.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cOver time, we\u2019ve gotten connected to a lot of experts out there, and I think we have found that this problem is really not as simple as we initially thought,\u201d said Prarthana Prashanth, a student in Berkeley and UCSF\u2019s master of translational medicine program and a member of Materniti, a CoLab team that found that few new mothers receive adequate screening or support even though one in seven women experience postpartum mood disorder. The result \u2014 Materniti \u2014 is a scalable care model consisting of informal, expert-led group sessions, in which new mothers gain access to both clinically accurate information and peer-to-peer social interaction. <\/span><\/p>

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\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t have been until we worked through the process here at the CoLab to figure that out,\u201d Prashanth added. \u201cWe\u2019ve conducted a lot of customer discoveries so far, introduced key opinion leaders to really figure out what are all the problems and how do we solve for them. And so now we have a much better idea of how we sit in the market as compared to our competition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Launched <\/span>last fall<\/span><\/a> and housed at UC Berkeley\u2019s <\/span>Blum Center for Developing Economies<\/span><\/a>, the CoLab is a collaboration space to advance the development of medical devices to facilitate better healthcare. It aims to help entrepreneurs close the data and information gap between innovators and industry, paying particular attention to improving lives in low-resource regions.<\/span><\/p>


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In addition to an in-person and virtual space for undergraduate, graduate, and faculty teams to harness their human experiences, trade stories, and start dialogues, the CoLab hosts workshops and prestigious speakers, and is a place for teams and industry to connect and share each other\u2019s know-how. The CoLab\u2019s supporters include the Harvey and Leslie Wagner Foundation, Mitsuru and Lucinda Igarashi, former Vodafone CEO and Blum Center trustee Arun Sarin, and the lab\u2019s inaugural corporate partner,<\/span> HCL Technologies<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>


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\u201cThese teams arrived at the CoLab with already-impressive ideas, if not early prototypes,\u201d said Dan Fletcher, the CoLab\u2019s director, a professor of bioengineering, and the Blum Center\u2019s incoming faculty director. \u201cThe cross-pollination, the lab learnings, the refining of these promising innovations have really produced some projects and startups with a lot of potential to make an impact in their respective fields.\u201d<\/span><\/p>


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Six student teams were chosen as the Health Tech CoLab\u2019s inaugural cohort:<\/span><\/p>\n