A competition for undergraduate students to create innovative healthcare solutions
Official title: DEBUT CHALLENGE MANAGEMENT CONTRACT
Funded at Venturewell · NIH-11306536 · Data updated 2026-11-12
The DEBUT Challenge is a fun competition where college students work together to come up with new ideas and inventions that can help improve healthcare for everyone.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Venturewell NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Hadley, United States) |
| Project start | March 17, 2023 |
| Project end | March 16, 2026 |
| Funding year | 2025 |
| Award (this year) | $264,929 |
| NIH project number | 75N92023P00086-P00005-0-1 |
| Project ID | NIH-11306536 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Ideal candidates for benefiting from this research are patients with unmet clinical needs that could be addressed by novel biomedical technologies.
✕Less likely to help
Patients with well-established treatments for their conditions may not receive direct benefits from this research.
What this research studies
The DEBUT Challenge invites undergraduate teams to develop creative solutions for unmet health and clinical needs. Participants gain hands-on experience in identifying problems, designing, building, and testing their biomedical innovations. This initiative aims to foster collaboration among students while generating novel tools that can enhance healthcare delivery. By engaging in this competition, students contribute to the advancement of biomedical technologies that align with the mission of improving health outcomes.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this research could lead to the development of innovative healthcare tools that improve patient care and outcomes.
How similar studies have gone: Similar competitions and initiatives have successfully led to innovative healthcare solutions and advancements in biomedical engineering.
Where this research is happening
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Venturewell
Hadley, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Neal, Rebekah — Venturewell
- Study coordinator: Neal, Rebekah
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.