Awards and Honors: June 11, 2007

Adam de la Zerda, a PhD candidate in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Laboratory, and Dr. Milana Trounce, Avishai Shoham, and Kristen Gasior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, have won first prize in the Bay Area Entrepreneurship Contest for their idea, Laser-Seal. The competition was held at a conference sponsored by Women 2.0, which provides a support network for young women entrepreneurs by supplying mentorship and resources. In front of 12 venture capitalists, the Laser-Seal team presented their idea of using laser technology in the operating room to provide more efficient and cleaner wound closures. They were selected as the grand prize winners along with one other team. Included in their award is the chance to meet with Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurveston and Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital. In the MIPS lab, Mr. de la Zerda researches photoacoustic molecular imaging.

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