Additional team members are Cassie Parker, Ryan Byer, and Robert Wujek.

The students are developing a device to monitor real-time blood oxygenation levels for hemodynamically stable and unstable patients aimed at controlling core body temperatures in patients.

HemoTherm surpassed five undergraduate teams and claimed the $20,000 top prize in the Black Division at the 29th annual Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition.

"It was another exciting event, with amazing presentations from all 10 finalists, making it very difficult for our diverse panel of 13 judges," said Joseph Pekny, outgoing interim director of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, which organizes the annual event.

"A mission of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship is to see our students succeed, and all participants this year are winners - they all will take some money home. They can take with them all that they learned from this competitive process, and society wins when these ideas become viable businesses."

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Top: Purdue biomedical engineering senior Tori Clift and Sahil Sanghani, a senior in electrical and computer engineering, answer questions from judges about their business-plan presentation for HemoTherm

Bottom:  Purdue biomedical engineering senior Stephanie Eichman discusses her team's plans for its HemoTherm