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Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship

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2006 Graduate Track Finalists

BVM Technologies

1st Place, $15,000
BVM Technologies
University of Arizona

Team Members: Eric Oden, Robin Meeks, and Daniel Joseph Rak, Jr.
Advisor: Jim Jindrich

Description: BVM Technologies is a service provider of pre-clinical testing to the medical device industry. The service utilizes a patented in-vitro method to test and analyze intravascular medical devices.

IntegrAS

2nd Place, $5,000
IntegrAS
University of Georgia

Team Members: Cooper Butler, Manish K Jar, Constantinos Theofanous
Advisor: Dr. Charles Hofer

Description: IntegrAS offers tax return preparation services to accounting firms to help alleviate the struggles of the busy season. IntegrAS helps to cut costs and save time for accounting firms by way of their offshore partners in India.

Samkaijo, LLC

3rd Place, $3,000
Samkaijo, LLC
University of Washington

Team Members: Kai McSwain, Samuel Cho and John White
Advisor: John Castle

Description: Samkaijo's goal is to deliver pain medication to localize areas in the knee/shoulder/ankle, which allows patients to feel good and recover quickly. We will deliver pain medications in a thermogel, a temperature sensitive compound that exists in a liquid state at temperatures below 23C, yet becomes a semi-solid gel at normal body temperature (37C). These unique properties allow easy injection of a liquid to the joint.

Agrobotics

Honorable Mention, $1,000
Agrobotics
University of Arkansas-Fayetteville

Team Members: Adi Masli, Alin Dragos, Jason McNabb Advisor: Carol Reeves

Description: Agrobotics is a precision-agriculture equipment manufacturer. The first product line, the SS1, is the first continually-operating automated soil sampler utilizing GPS technology.

Graduate Track

Allied Polymer
Duke University

Team Members: Muhammad Shoaib Syed, Frank F. Shi
Advisor: Giuseppe Lopomo

Description: Allied Polymer, Inc. (API) designs and develops novel low-cost and high performance photo-imageable co-polyester materials used in advanced microelectronic packaging and flexible printed circuit board markets.

Electrical Baseboards
University of Michigan

Team Members: Hector Gutierrez, Omar Elkheshen, Renato Secol
Advisor: Thomas Kinnear

Description: Electrical baseboards plans to provide technology-oriented and design-conscious individuals with a novel solution that will allow them to connect their electrical devices at any point along a wall.

G-SINC
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Team Members: German Cruz, Prasanna V lyer, Amit Nimunkar, John Schuster
Advisor: Philip Greenwood

Description: G-SINC aims to provide the next generation fingerprint biometric system.

iKard
Sillman University, Philippines

Team Members: Norberto Riego II, Irene Rafil, Allen Jaani, Eva Bulandres, Bonifacio F. Comandante, Jr.
Advisor: Wilma M. Tejero

Description: iKard is a customized single-transaction use product that works like a credit card to access e-commerce in buying internet products and services. iKard will have three advantages: eliminate unused balance typical in debit cards, removes the need to maintain credit cards and prevent online identity theft.

M.I.D.A.S.
Stanford University

Team Members: M. Yashar Kalani, Aadel A. Chaudhuri, Christopher P. Anderson
Advisor: Dr. Victor Tse

Description: Arvana Technologies, Inc. has designed and tested a sensor-based microfluidic device for the acute intracranial delivery of controlled quantities of drugs as treatment for a spectrum of neurological disorders.

PixYour
Indiana University

Team Members: Christopher Carriero, Tony Easterlin, Mandar Vadhavkar
Advisor: Tom Hustad

Description: PixYour is founded on the notion that tourists will always desire unique souvenirs and photos from wherever they go. Thus, PixYour will create both self-service picture taking kiosks and a website to establish PixYour's core business of transmitting specially formatted digital postcards from PixYour kiosks and maintaining them for storage and sharing on PixYour.com.

OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc.
University of Illinios at Chicago

Team Members: Matthew Christian, Colin James, Anna Lisa Somera, Kirk Purcell, Mark Kwatia
Advisor: Rod Shrader

Description: OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. capitalizes on the $8 billion orthodontia market using a patented application of cyclic-forces technology to develop medical devices which will drastically expedite orthodontic treatment time. By reducing patient chair time, OrthoAccel will offer a financial benefit to its customers, orthodontists, who can treat more patients each year.

Predictive Life Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University

Team Members: Himanshu Khurana, Melanie Sit, David Gaskin, Eric So, Prateek Kumar
Advisor: Thomas Emerson

Description: PLS is a biotechnology company that provides advanced software tools using predictive artificial intelligence to revolutionize personalized medicine. Our software predicts the "right" drug at the "right" dosage for the patient. Our customers will be pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies, universities and research organizations.