Barracuda Bowl 2024 Areas of Interest

This year, we are focusing on two critical areas: Point of Care and Proactive Health. You can learn more about the 2024 Barracuda Bowl (and details on how to apply!) by watching the recording of our info session.

Applications have closed for this year's Barracuda Bowl, but you can still join us for the pitch event in December!

Point of Care:

Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep:

Innovations that address challenges in diagnosis, treatment, or care delivery within these critical areas.

Proactive Health:

Novel Prevention, Detection, and Prophylactic Treatment Methods for Disease

- Scalable early detection methods, especially those using low/no-cost sensing technologies.

- Prophylactic approaches to prevent diseases and mitigate harmful outcomes.

- Continuous health monitoring tools that can be deployed at a population level.

Population-Level Approaches to Increasing the Adoption of Prevention and Wellness Behaviors

- Early indicators of pre-disease states and inexpensive proactive health measures.

- Mental health resilience and mindfulness building methods for large populations.

- Strategies to educate and incentivize individuals toward healthier behaviors.

- Innovative approaches to prolonging healthspan and independence, even without the presence of disease.

System Innovation for Proactive Health Outcomes

- New surrogates and models for predicting long-term health outcomes.

- Valuation models for public health interventions such as vaccination and screening.

- Novel funding and delivery models for preventative care.