UH team developing IVF tech to help the World’s hunger problems wins PACE competition

Source: The Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship

The UH Breakthrough Innovation Challenge sponsored by Accuity LLP is purely about celebrating innovative ideas at UH with commercial potential. This year, we asked contestants for a F.E.W. good ideas in the areas of Food, Energy and Water.

Team Good Egg (PhD student Arif Rahman and MS graduate Kainalu Matthews), comprised of a duo of electrical engineers, took home the $1,000 first prize, and captured the $500 Audience Choice award that was determined by audience votes. This team wow-ed the judges and audience members with their technology of an automated washing and grading system of bovine embryo. This noninvasive test for healthy embryo during In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) will produce more pregnant cattle, and therefore, more livestock for global protein supplies. Congratulations to Good Egg! Thank you to all of the participants, coaches, judges, and to Accuity LLP for their generous title sponsorship! 

Check out the photos from the final event HERE.