MedCityNews: Here’s who came out on top in MedTech Innovator’s Global Industry Competition
Since 2012, nonprofit startup accelerator MedTech Innovator has been holding an annual competition to crown an early stage startup as the MedTech Innovator of the year.
Besides bragging rights, winning the contest comes with a $350,000 grand prize, a major boon for this pre-clinical stage companies.
The selection process whittled the prospective candidate pool down from 700 companies to five finalists tackling healthcare problems ranging from women’s health to ophthalmology.
Judges for the competition included Jennifer Kozak, vice president of new business development at Johnson & Johnson, Anne Sissel, managing director of Baxter Ventures and Linda Elkins, the chief technology officer of the Gore Innovation Center.
Ultimately, the startup that was awarded the grand prize at last week’s MedTech Conference in Philadelphia was Boulder, Colo.-based Sana Health.