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A Biomedical Challenge ‘DEBUT’ for Undergraduate Students

Students chat; DEBUT sign on wall behind them

NIH has launched the 2025 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge, which tasks undergraduate student teams with developing new technologies to address unmet needs in health care. The challenge features 15 monetary prizes.

NIH’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and the nonprofit VentureWell invite student engineers to participate.

Multiple NIH institutes are sponsoring this challenge. Topics range from technologies for low-resource settings and rehabilitative technologies for people with physical disabilities to cancer and HIV/AIDS prevention and care.

Submissions must be received by June 18. Winners will be announced in August. 
Get the details at https://go.nih.gov/SfhZLyp
 

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