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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Xabier Sanjuan

Senior Mechanical Engineer
Siemens Energy, Inc.
Orlando, FL

Xabier Sanjuan joined Siemens Energy Inc. in 2007 as senior mechanical engineer of Generator Service Engineering in Orlando, FL. He previously worked for Parkson Corporation for two years as Engineering Manager in the Biological-Solid Liquid Separation Division in Fort Lauderdale.  His current main focus is on hydrogen cooled electrical generators in design, upgrading, and modernization. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, upon completion of his undergraduate and Mechanical Engineering Master Degree at Simon Bolivar University, Xabier chose to become a College Professor of mechanical engineering, were he also tutored several Master and undergraduate Degrees.

The bulk of Xabier's professional, corporate career (12 years) was with PDVSA Intevep Oil R&D Center in Venezuela. There he was responsible for structural integrity and failure analysis of oil refinery and exploration & production equipment, as well R&D on emerging sources of energy technologies.

He has being published in structural analysis using Finite Element Analysis and more recently in Computational Fluid Dynamics.