Tampa Company Wins Cade Prize

Phil Hipol and Stuart Hart of BioAcousTech in Tampa won the 3rd Annual Cade Museum Prize on May 11.  They will receive $50,000 in cash from the Community Foundation of North Central Florida and $10,000 in legal services from Edwards Wildman in West Palm Beach.

See Gainesville Sun Article on Cade Museum Prize Night

The BioAcousTech technology, derived from U.S. miltary and intelligence applications, establishes the new field of inside-the-body acoustic monitoring.  The device which won the Prize was an electronic catheter stethoscope (eCath) which has the potential to greatly improve healthcare in labor and delivery monitoring, cardiovascular and pulmonary monitoring, and the detection of organ damage during surgery.

Congratulations also to our three runner-up teams, who received $2,500 in legal services from Edwards Wildman:

1st Runner Up -  Reliox, which replaces dangerous and obsolete chlorine dioxide generation processes with a single-step, single-chemical, solid phase reaction.

2nd Runner Up - Nanodiscovery for a new technique, NanoDLSay™, that enables chemical and biological detection and analysis using gold nanoparticles coupled with dynamic light scattering.

3rd Runner Up - Prometheon Pharma, for Topix, a skin patch technology for painless delivery of large therapeutic compounds - such as insulin - that are currently administered only by needle injection.

What is the Cade Museum Prize for Innovation?

The Cade Museum Foundation launched an annual competition recognizing and encouraging Florida innovators in 2010.   The 2012 award will once again be a  $50,000 cash prize.  While headquartered in Gainesville, the Cade Museum Prize is open to all Florida residents, and competitors from outside of Gainesville are strongly encouraged to submit applications.

The 2011 competition drew almost 100 entries from around Florida and was won by Florida Sustainables (formerly Sestar Sustainables), which has invented a plastic capable of biodegrading in 5-10 years, compared to 1000 years for other plastics. The other three finalists were Sol-Gel Solutions, the maker of an advanced air filtration system, Optima Neuroscience, which produces a brain monitor and software that simplifies diagnosis, and Xobotix, designer of a passive dynamic exoskeleton enabling severely handicapped people to walk.

Sweet 16 Profile: Nanoparticle Enabled Bioanalytical Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet 16 Profile: C2C Navitech Delivery System

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet 16 Profile: Mind2Market Non Contact Vital Signs Monitor

Tim Toppin explains explains how to use a micro-doppler effect to measure vital signs in humans and animals without contact.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet 16 Profile: Green Liquid and Gas Technologies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet 16 Profile: Portable Chlorine Dioxide Generation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet 16 Profile: Prometheon Pharma

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet 16 Profile: SocialNewsDesk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet 16 Profile: Protista

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet 16 Profile: Pacifier-Activated Lullaby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet 16 Profile: Cankicide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2012 Sweet 16 Announced

 The Sweet Sixteen inventions for the 3rd Annual $50,000 Cade Museum Prize include an entry from Melbourne that enables MRI-guided drug delivery for brain tumors; a pacifier-activated music system from St. Johns that that encourages pre-term infants to feed; "digital patient" software from Gainesville that simulates a physical examination for nurses and medical students; and filtration devices from Pensacola that quickly detect waterborne pathogens. The 16 finalists were drawn from 120 entries submitted from November 2011 to January 2012 across Florida.  The final four will be announced on April 23 and the winner picked on May 11. 

Contact

Entry

City

Alex Green

Green Pyrolizer Gasifier

Gainesville

Matthew Herbolich

Mind2Market Non Contact Vital Sign Monitor

Gainesville

Phil Hipol

Electronic Catheter Stethoscope

Tampa

Stephen Hsu

Delivery of Large Therapeutic Compounds

Gainesville

Ryan Hulslander

Irrisept

Gainesville

Qun Huo

Nanoparticle-Enabled Bioanalytical Technology

Orlando

Matthew Kim

Early Screening for Head and Neck Cancer

Miami

Ian Knapp

Portable Chlorine Dioxide Generation

Gainesville

Bernd Liesenfeld

Cankicide

Gainesville

Kathleen Lovell

Pacifier Activated Lullaby

St. Johns

Dominic Maggio

A New Kind of Topical Anesthetic

Miami

David Massias

Digital Clinical Experience

Gainesville

Joseph Moss

Spin Concentrator and Method

Pensacola

Craig Pagan

Navitech Delivery System

Melbourne

Ernesto Pretto

Intravenous Delivery Systems for Volatile Gas Anesthetics

Coral Gables

Kim Wilson

Social Newsdesk

Newberry

Judging Criteria

The Cade Museum Prize is designed to encourage innovation and invention by providing an incentive for early-stage companies to move ideas and products closer to marketplace viability. The following criteria are paramount:

Innovative Quality: How different is the idea from others in its field? Is it a Big Leap Forward or a Small Tweak?

Breadth of Impact: What will change as a result of this invention? A market segment or the world?

Breakthrough Potential: Will the Cade Museum Prize enable the winner – whether an individual or an existing company - to breakthrough to the next level of development?

Open to All Florida Residents

While headquartered in Gainesville, the Cade Museum Prize is open to all Florida residents, and competitors from outside of Gainesville are strongly encouraged to submit applications. The 2012 competition and instructions will be announced in November, 2011.