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VIT students bag first prize
Two teams of students of the VIT University, Vellore have bagged the first prize in the CAMTech Diabetes Innovation Hackathon held at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad recently. The innovations of both the teams, which won them prize money of $1000 each, have the potential to ease the testing procedures for diabetes patients and reduce their cost.
Hyderabad: Two teams of students of the VIT University, Vellore have bagged the first prize in the CAMTech Diabetes Innovation Hackathon held at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad recently. The innovations of both the teams, which won them prize money of $1000 each, have the potential to ease the testing procedures for diabetes patients and reduce their cost.
CAMTech (Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies) is a global network of academic, clinical, corporate and implementation partners working to improve and accelerate high quality, affordable medical technology development for low and middle income countries (LMICs).
Team E-stick, which won the Marico Innovation Prize has developed E-stick which is a non-invasive device for measurement of blood glucose of diabetes patients on a daily basis, without having to go through the pain of pricking themselves every time. The team included his classmates Akshat Aggarwal, Sakcham Baroliya, Rohit Madhavan and Sahil Sharma.
Team Cheeni Kum, the team which won the CAMTech Grand prize has developed Sparsh, which is a revolutionary multi-parameter diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) screening device that is capable of performing tests such as monofilament test, vibration threshold test, temperature threshold test and pulse amplitude monitor. The team included B. Tech. students Vipul Arora, Ajay Anmol Saxena, Abhra Dass (3rd year EEE) and Sweta Shubhra Dutta (3rd Biotech).
“Lack of access to basic screening, high cost of screening and requirement of trained health workers are the current roadblocks to early screening of DPN. All of this will be taken care of if Sparsh is placed in the market”, the team head said. On the other hand, E-stick will provide simpler and cheaper methods for monitoring blood glucose levels which at present involve invasive pricking with the risk of infection, and expensive strips which need to be bought every time the reading has to be taken.
Costing about Rs 12,000, the E-stick is soon to be sent for clinical trials. “We hope to place it in the market in the next two years”, said Vipul Arora. “It is a great time to learn and innovate in our country. At VIT, we are trying our best to create an atmosphere that gives wings to the aspirations and innovations of young minds so that they may scale new heights,” said G. Viswanathan, VIT Chancellor.
