UTA Bioengineering Team Wins Healthcare Innovation Competition

Written By Kathleen Otto

(from left to right) Jun Liao, Jeannette Santos, Brady Killham, Michael Ikefuna, Juan Ramirez and Justyn Jaworski

Four senior bioengineering students at The University of Texas at Arlington have won the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Coulter College for Healthcare Innovation competition for their work on an early detection device for atrial fibrillation.

Brady Killham, Juan Ramirez, Jeannette Santos and Michael Ikefuna, all seniors in UTA’s Bioengineering Department, earned the Best Overall award for their plan to develop FibGuard, a wearable, non-invasive atrial fibrillation early detection device.

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