For the second year in a row, a Johns Hopkins’ team won the $10,000 first prize in the Biotechnology Conference and Case Competition at Wake Forest. One member, Matthew Koch, is a member of the 2014 class of the Carey Business School’s Global MBA program.
Along with Koch, the JHU team featured Paloma Navas Gutierrez, a PhD candidate in health policy and management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health; team leader Po-Yuan (Robert) Hsiao, a PhD candidate in pharmacology at the School of Medicine; Yuanming Suo, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering; and Ying-Ying Wang, a postdoctoral fellow in biophysics at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
In the competition, the eight student teams representing schools like Virgina Tech, Duke and UC Berkeley, were challenged by Boston Scientific to create methods of improving value for patients in the company’s endoscopy division. The teams worked on their proposals for a week and then spent one day presenting them to a group of judges.
In addition to the JHU win at Wake Forest, another team of Johns Hopkins students finished second at the Emory Global Health Case Competition last month at Emory University. Student teams from 24 universities across the globe were asked to develop 21st-century strategies for the World Health Organization. First place went to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
The students representing Johns Hopkins were Daniel Carnegie and Arielle Slam, MBA/Master of Public Health candidates at the Carey Business School and Bloomberg School of Public Health; Jacob Cox and David Lee of the School of Medicine; Abby Dowling of the School of Nursing; and Hayley Droppert of the School of Public Health.
