CoVent-19 Challenge Attracts More Than 200 Ventilator Design Submissions as 7 Teams Build Working Prototypes in Finalist Round
May 07 2020 - 8:00AM
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anesthesiology resident physicians
More than 200 teams from around the world have submitted designs
for a rapidly deployable, minimum viable ventilator as part of a
hackathon hosted on GrabCAD.com, with round one ending May 1. The
CoVent-19 Challenge has now shifted to a finalist round. Seven
teams have been selected to participate and will be building
working prototypes for testing by a team of judges led by a dozen
anesthesiology resident physicians from Massachusetts General
Hospital.
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“Healthcare systems around the world continue to face a period
of great uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dr.
Richard Boyer, founder and director of the CoVent-19 Challenge.
“Will they be able to provide invasive mechanical ventilation to
all who need it? As anesthesiologists, we are experts at using
ventilators to care for critical ill patients and believe there is
an opportunity for innovative new designs particularly for areas
where standard mechanical ventilators may be hard to obtain.”
Phase 1 submissions included teams from 43 different countries,
including Algeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Egypt, Greece, India,
Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, the United
Kingdom, and the United States. The finalist teams are:
- SmithVent, a team of Smith College (Northampton, Mass.)
engineering alumni and friends.
- CORE Vent, submitted by Ross Hunter of Armadilla Ltd.
(Edinburgh, Scotland)
- InVent Pneumatic Ventilator, submitted by fuseproject, a
design and innovation firm (San Francisco), Cionic, a medical
device technology company (San Francisco), and a mechanical
engineering team from Accenture (Seattle).
- RespiraWorks, a global team of dozens of engineers,
healthcare workers and other professionals with a focus on
developing countries and low-resource communities.
- OP Vent, submitted by a team from Nvidia (Santa Clara,
Calif.), Waymo (Mountain View, Calif.), Stanford University (Palo
Alto, Calif.), and VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
- Lung Evolve, submitted by an engineering team from the
Universidad Nacional (Bogotá, Colombia) and Universidad Pontificia
Bolivariana (Medellín, Colombia).
- Baxter Ventilator, submitted by a team of educators,
students, and alumni from Baxter Academy for Technology and Science
(Portland, Maine).
“The CoVent-19 Challenge has been an amazing demonstration of
what’s possible when a global community of innovators comes
together for the common good,” said Stratasys Chief Innovation
Officer Scott Crump, one of the challenge judges. “In one month, we
have gone from a problem statement to remarkably creative solutions
from students and professionals, engineers and designers, from
everywhere. It brightens my spirit during what is otherwise a
pretty dark time for our world.”
In addition to hosting the challenge on its GrabCAD site,
Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) has provided a team of three application
engineers to work with the seven finalist teams to help them build
working prototypes utilizing Stratasys 3D printers as needed. The
prototypes will be evaluated using a test bed to determine which
design provides the best combination performance against safety,
reliability, manufacturability, affordability, and simplicity.
The goal is to declare a winner by the beginning of June, with
the CoVent-19 Challenge residents then working with the winning
team to bring it to market, including securing FDA approval for the
device.
Other sponsors of the CoVent-19 Challenge include Ximedica,
Valispace, HackFund and Yelling Mule.
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