A team of Tulane University biomedical engineering students has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 11
Team CerFix will join 35 student teams from national and international universities as they present low-cost technologies they have designed to address global health challenges in settings with limited resources. Three finalists will be selected to compete in a live virtual finale on March 26. The competition is sponsored by the Rice 360º Institute for Global Health.
Team CerFix, consisting of Emma Chapel, Katherine Mattingly, Madeline Tallman and Sydney Siegmeister, developed the device as part of a capstone design course required of all biomedical engineering seniors. They described it as an “efficient, intuitive tool to effectively visualize the cervix and screen for precancerous and cancerous lesions” among women living in low-resourced rural communities along the Amazon River in Peru.