2009 Undergraduate Tri-State Winners
Progressive Solutions – John Brown University – First Place: $25,000
Progressive Solutions communicates a desire to reinvent the ordinary through simple ingenuity. Our first product – Higher Hangers – are new patented, space-saving clothes hangers that reduce clutter and create new closet space by raising garments vertically.
Progressive Solutions
Renephron Pharmaceuticals – University of Oklahoma – Second Place: $15,000
Renephron Pharmaceuticals is a developing life-changing drug therapies for patients with polycystic kidney disease and other inflammatory diseases. The company uses a compound known as SHetA2 that suppresses abnormalities at the cellular level, giving it the ability to treat multiple disease.
Renephron Pharmaceuticals
2008 Undergraduate Tri-State Winners
Nantiox – University of Oklahoma – First Place
Nantiox, Inc. is a biotechnology company developing a propriety nanotechnology platform to treat ophthalmic diseases, neurological diseases, and cancers. Nantiox’s cerium oxide nanoparticles (Nanoceria) acts as a powerful antioxidant that protect cells within the body and prevents cell death otherwise caused by damaging radicals.
Waste-Alternative Transformation Technologies (WATTs) was founded to compete in the lucrative energy and waste management sectors by creating a synergistic model that fuse the two together.
Waste-Alternative Transformation Technologies (WATTs)