The Nanodropper [Photo courtesy of Nanodropper]
The Minnesota Cup has awarded its grand prize for innovative entrepreneurs to a student-led startup for the first time.Medical device developer Nanodropper took home top honors from the awards ceremony, held yesterday at the University of Minnesota.
“We have created an eyedrop bottle adaptor that will save billions in medication waste, one drop at a time,” Nanodropper CEO Allisa Song said.
Song, an MD candidate at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, launched the company with three other founders after learning that drug companies make eye drops too large to be fully absorbed, and that smaller drops are more efficient and just as efficacious.
Nanodropper CEO Allisa Song [Photo courtesy of Nanodropper]
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