Award Recipients

Golden Tickets

• Ashoka Madduri, TargetSite Therapeutics: One-year free bench space at BioLabs New Haven
• Marcelo Lejeune YC ’26, BlueGreen Materials: One-year free incubator space at ClimateHaven
• Reid Waldman MD, VeraDermics: One-year free office space at DISTRICT

E-Poster Awards

Courtesy of Wiggin and Dana

• Arts: Jamal Robinson, Change in the Air Foundation
• Biotech: Prashanth Vallabhajosyula, Novel biomarker platform for aortic aneurysm disease
• Climate: Elizabeth Lin, Fresh Air: Personal Environmental Monitoring
• Health: Garret Ash, PhD, Combination Therapy-Continuous Glucose Monitoring Technology with Digital Fitness as a Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes
• Tech: Kidae Shin, Professor Charles Ahn’s Lab: Single Atomic Layer Transistors for Future Computing

Pitch Contest Awards

Courtesy of Connecticut Innovations

Arts

• 1st Place: Douglas Clayton & Calida Jones, Creative Evolutions  
• 2nd Place: Sunny Allis, All Together Now!
• 3rd Place (A tie): Kathleen Wrinn & Peter Hodgson, The Bridge / Allen Keller, Walking Time Bomb LLC

$30K Biotech Accelerator Awards, supported by The Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale

• Thuy Tran, Bispecific MIF – D – DT Targeting to Enhance Immunotherapy Responses  
• Peggy Myung, MD, PhD, Programming Dermal Cells to Stimulate Hair Regeneration
• Yingqun Huang, Treatment of Cancer-Associated Cachexia

Digital Health Accelerator Awards, supported by The Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale  

• Amber W. Childs, M-Select      
• Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, StretchTex, Inc.
• Emily Lee and Jose Cortes-Briones, Non-Invasive Fetal Brain Monitoring

Climate

• 1st Place:  Carbon Loop SOM ’24, Perry Bakas
• 2nd Place:  James Licato YC ’24, Catala
• 3rd Place: Marcelo Lejeune YC ’26 Bluegreen Materials

Tech

• 1st Place: Brad Magnetta, modlee
• 2nd Place: Renato Carregha SOM ’ 23, NAOS
• 3rd Place: Sophie Friedfeld-Bebaide ENV ’24, Freddy Freed