2009 Rice University Business Plan Competition Winners

Rice University Business Plan Competition Awards $800,000 in Cash and Prizes. - Rice Alliance

This list includes the winner of the Heinlein Prize Trust/SpaceX Microgravity Award I mentioned in an earlier post. Here are the winners of the 4 NASA prizes at this year's competition:

Earth/Space Life Science Innovation Award

Integrated Diagnostics
U of California - Berkeley
$ 20,000
NASA Johnson Space Center

Earth/Space Engineering Innovation Awards

Troy Research
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
$ 20,000
NASA Johnson Space Center

Next Ray
U of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
$ 20,000
NASA Johnson Space Center

E&M Devices
U of California - Berkeley
$ 20,000
NASA Johnson Space Center

Some of these teams also won other awards at the competition, including a $100,000 Life Sciences Award and a 2nd place award in the overall competition for Next Ray.

Big Plans, Big Show, Rice's Business Plan Contest - My Venturepad - One of the judges covers the contest, including Next Ray and Integrated Diagnostics:

Next Ray, which took second place (and also won our best-written plan award, and the NASA life sciences award), a new technology that may be able to replace X-rays with only one tenth of the radiation. From the University of North Carolina.
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Integrated Diagnostics, from the University of California at Berkeley, showed a quicker way to test blood for HIV.