Winners of the Science in Medicine School Teams Prize 2024

 

Five students holding their winner certificates alongside their teacher who is holding the poster designed by the students

Six Concord science students have been named winners of the prestigious Science in Medicine School Teams Prize (Lung category) in an Imperial College run competition. The team won the Lung category prize after delivering a “fantastic presentation”.

The Concord team of Angela, Clarice, Daria, Matthew, Ying and Zachary presented a project that looked to help asthma patients by designing an innovative continuous wheezing detection patch. The patch would use a calibrated sound detection algorithm to adjust dose of a patient’s reliever inhaler according to their symptoms. Potentially this could both achieve better asthma control and mitigate inhaler over-use.

The team won the top prize of £3000 to be spent on science related activities at college and a mentoring session with a university academic.

In total, across 5 themes this year there were 235 entries from 138 separate schools around the UK. Only 10 teams are selected for each of the 5 finals and, this year, Concord teams have reached finals in 3 of them. The other finals remain to be decided.

The competition aims to stretch student scientists’ thinking beyond traditional biomedical fields and encourages them to consider how science and engineering can affect health and medicine in the future.

Head of Science at Concord, Mr. Brown said “Success in these competitions, and also a huge number of outstanding EPQ investigations and dissertations and a multitude of medals in Olympiad competitions continue to showcase Concordian scientists for their skills in creativity, innovation and research. These are the inspiring scientists of tomorrow!”