Congratulations to Our 2024 Grand Prize and First Place Winners!

NETrolyze, a novel immunotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), was named the $25,000 grand prize winner at a live finalist round held November 15 in New York. The first-in-class therapeutic injectable gel prevents the spread of TNBC, one of the most aggressive cancer types, enabling patients to avoid toxic chemotherapy and expensive treatments – potentially transforming their lives. Click here for the full list of 2024 winners. Also see the Top 100 highest scoring entries.

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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 15,000 design ideas have been submitted by engineers, students, and entrepreneurs in more than 100 countries. Join the innovators who dared to dream big by entering your ideas today.

Read About Past Winners’ Success Stories

Special Report spotlights the eight top entries in 2023 as well as past winners whose ideas are now in the market, making a difference in the world.

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A ‘Create the Future’ Winner Featured on ‘Here’s an Idea’

Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.

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Thank you from our Sponsors

“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”

— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.

“From our beginnings, Mouser has supported engineers, innovators and students. We are proud of our longstanding support for the Create the Future Design Contest and the many innovations it has inspired.”

— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics

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Radu Beleca

Brunel University - Centre for Electronic Systems Research
Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK

Radu Beleca was born in Bucovina's city of Radauti, Romania in 1983. He graduated with honours from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in June 2007, where he specialized in medical engineering. He receives the MSc (by research) degree in electrical engineering and fluid mechanics from University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France in September 2008. Currently he is working towards his PhD degree at Brunel University, London, United Kingdom.

From 2003 to 2007 he was with the High Intensity Field Laboratory, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and from 2006 to 2008 with Electronics and Electrostatics Research Unit, Laboratory of Automatics and Industrial Informatics & Laboratory of Aerodynamic Studies UMR6609, University of Poitiers & IUT Angoulême, France, where he took part in various research projects aimed at the study of applied electrostatics, electrohydrodynamics, tribocharging phenomena of fine powders and the development of novel electrostatic separation technologies for minerals and recycling industry. Currently as a member of the Centre for Electronic Systems Research, Brunel University, UK his research interests focus on characterization of pharmaceutical aerosols, charge particle dynamics, Phase Doppler Anemometry, medical electrostatics and nanotechnology.

Mr. Beleca is member of the IEEE Industry Application Society USA and associated member of the IEEE-IAS Electrostatic Process Comittee, Institution of Engineering and Technology UK, Electrostatic Society of America, Romanian Medical Association, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Great Britain, TATE Galleries UK which include international modern and contemporary art and British art from 1500 to the present day.