eWEAR Health Prize @ Stanford U. 2025

Deep Tech at the Intersection with Medical/Health Sector with artificial intelligence, brain-machine interfaces, longevity, precision health, or robotics

Eight entrepreneurs compete for a $5,000 prize.

Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025

Time: 1:00pm – 5:00pm PDT (view agenda)

Location: McCaw Hall, Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University (326 Galvez St, Stanford, CA 94305, parking details below)

Registration Required: Affiliate Registration (Free)– eWEAR Affiliate member companies, VIPs, and the Stanford University community with SUNetID. Non-affiliate Registration ($49)– Prospective members and other paying attendees

Questions? Ask wearable-electronics@stanford.edu

Agenda & Speakers

12:30 pm | Badge pick-up opens

1:00 pm | Welcome
Angela McIntyre, eWEAR Executive Director

1:05 pm | Opening Remarks
Prof. Zhenan Bao, eWEAR Faculty Director

1:15pm | Keynote & Fireside Chat
Sunita Mishra, MD, MBA Former CMO Amazon Health
Moderator: Prof. Xiang Qian, MD, eWEAR Co-Faculty Director

2:00 pm | Pitch Competition (view pitch presenters)

4:00 pm | Panel Discussion (with judges) & Awards

4:15 pm | Start-up Demo Showcase & Networking Reception

5:00 pm | Conclusion of event

Keynote Speaker

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Sunita Mishra, MD, MBA

Former CMO Amazon Health Services

Bio:

Dr. Sunita Mishra is an internist who has practiced for over 20 years in the US and in Singapore.  She is a tenured excutive who has served in organizations on the forefront of healthcare’s digital transformation. She has most recently been at Amazon as the CMO of the Health Services team.  Prior to this she was the Chief Executive of Providence Express Care. Throughout her career she has been an advocate of a consumer-centric approach to healthcare. She is particularly passionate about leveraging AI and technology to not just improve engagement, but to create a measurable and meaningful impact.  She is currently advising several start-up companies.

Sunita holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and MD from the University of Arizona and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington.

eWEAR Faculty Directors

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Zhenan Bao

K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University

Bio:

Zhenan Bao is K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering, and by courtesy, a Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Material Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Bao founded the Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiate (eWEAR) in 2016 and serves as the faculty director.

Prior to joining Stanford in 2004, she was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies from 1995-2004. She received her Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1995.  She has close to 700 refereed publications and over 80 US patents with a Google Scholar H-Index 215.

Bao is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors. She is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is a Fellow of MRS, ACS, AAAS, SPIE, ACS PMSE and ACS POLY. Bao is an Innovation Investigator with the Arc Institute and an Investigator with the CZ Biohub in San Francisco.

Bao was the inaugural recipient of the VinFuture Prize Female Innovator 2021, the ACS Chemistry of Materials Award 2022, MRS Mid-Career Award in 2021, AICHE Alpha Chi Sigma Award 2021, ACS Central Science Disruptor and Innovator Prize in 2020, Gibbs Medal by the Chicago session of ACS in 2020, Wilhelm Exner Medal by Austrian Federal Minister of Science 2018, ACS Award on Applied Polymer Science 2017, L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award in the Physical Sciences 2017, AICHE Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering in 2014, ACS Carl Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award in 2013, ACS Cope Scholar Award in 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry Beilby Medal and Prize in 2009, IUPAC Creativity in Applied Polymer Science Prize in 2008. Bao was selected as Nature’s Ten people in 2015 as a “Master of Materials” for her work on artificial electronic skin.

Bao co-founded  C3 Nano and PyrAmes, both are silicon-valley venture funded start-ups. She serves as an advising Partner for Fusion Venture Capital.

Xiang Qian, MD

Stanford Medicine Endowed Director; Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative And Pain Medicine; Clinical Professor (By Courtesy), Neurosurgery
Stanford University

Bio:

Dr. Xiang Qian is a Pain Management Physician and Clinical Professor at Stanford University. He is also the inaugural Stanford Medicine Endowed Director. Dr. Qian’s clinical interests include the treatment of acute and chronic pain, with special interest in head and neck pain. He developed many advanced surgical and interventional technologies for his patients; he currently leads the neurosurgery interventional pain program and is the recipient of Translational and Clinical Innovation Award at Stanford.  Dr. Qian is highly respected for his work on developing novel therapies for various chronic pain conditions, and lectures on these topics internationally.

Due to his passion for global health and leadership experience, Dr. Qian was appointed as the Medical Director of Stanford International Medical Services since 2016 to help deliver care for international patients and promote international collaborations. 

Outside of his work at Stanford, Dr. Qian founded the Chinese American Physicians’ Society to help bring medical knowledge internationally, and today, the society has more than 800 lifetime physician members and 400 resident and fellow physician members. 

Pitch Competition Judges

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DizzyEX | Danyang Fan
Overview

Demo Showcase

1. MiiHealth AI | John Wall, Jacob Lester, Josh Becker
2. Care Collaborative | Flora Ma, Ronald AngSiy
3. Billion Labs Inc. | Edward Wang, Colin Barry, Tatsuo Kumamoto, Chelsea Maples
4. TheMedBubble | Tiffani Johnson
5. Walnot Inc. | Ali Rahimpour Jounghani, Hadi Hosseini, Maryam Rostami, Laura Moreno
6. Model Health | Antoine Falisse
7. LumosFit | Hema Mandlekar
8. CuremAb Therapeutics Inc. | Cristabelle De Souza, Sam Forouzan, Marjia Afrin, Kouta Niizuma
9. Superbio.ai | Berke Buyukkucak
10. Tombot Inc. | Tom Stevens, Marissa Steingold, Jim Rowe, Joe Balou
11. ContinuuMed | Romal Mitr, Madhuhaas Gottimukkala
12. Frontier Bio | Eric Bennett, Sam Pashneh-Tala
13. PyrAmes Inc. | Xina Quan, David Krucik
14. iDentical | Iris Wedeking
15. Bao Group, Stanford U. | Baiyu Shi, Muhammad Khatib, Yujia Yuan

Stanford Founders

Graduate student organization Stanford University

Register for the Biotech Open Pitch Session

About

Stanford Founders is a dynamic ecosystem connecting cross-disciplinary Stanford graduate students to foster co-founder relationships and support early-stage startup development.

Our community of over 760 graduate student founders thrives on collaborations. Stanford Founders connects them with resources, investors, and like-minded co-founders for transformative growth. https://stanfordfounders.stanford.edu/

Angela McIntyre, Host

Executive Director of eWEAR
Stanford University

Bio

Angela McIntyre is the Executive Director of the Stanford Wearable Electronics (eWEAR) Initiative. She manages the eWEAR affiliates program and provides member companies opportunities to connect with research and events related to wearables at Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford, Angela was the lead analyst for industry research on wearables at Gartner. She advised companies bringing emerging wearable technology to market and was a frequent speaker at industry events. Her research included wearables as part of the Internet of Things, for artificial intelligence applications, for healthcare and as human-machine interfaces. Angela’s career in the tech industry also includes management of multi-company research programs at Intel and of R&D collaborations with semiconductor process equipment suppliers at Texas Instruments. Angela has an M.S. in Electronic Materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Management from MIT Sloan School and a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton.

Yilei Wu, Photographer

Laboratory Services Manager, Chemistry
Stanford University

Bio

Yilei Wu has been a photographer for over 10 years specializing in portrait and event photography. He has been the official photographer for eWear symposiums for the past 5 years and is known for his skills in capturing the enthusiasm in the discussions during the meeting and at the poster session.

Katryna Dillard

Program Manager of eWEAR
Stanford University

Bio

Katryna Dillard joined Stanford University in 2021 as the program manager for the Stanford Wearable Electronics (eWEAR) Initiative. As the program manager Katryna manages the logistics of annual symposiums, monthly seminars/newsletters, tracking and updating current affiliate member companies, and acts as a point of contact with affiliate members while providing administrative support. Prior to joining eWEAR Katryna worked in hotels at the front desk and events for 5 years. She graduated from Whittier College with a B.A. in Sociology and Theatre Communication Arts with an emphasis in Design and Technology.

Ellen, Zeng, Event Volunteer

Taiwan Science and Technology Hub, Stanford University

Ena Luis, Event Volunteer

Life Science Research Professional, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

Deonna Owens, Event Volunteer

Masters Student, Computer Science
Stanford University

Chibuike Uwakwe, Event Volunteer

MD Student, School of Medicine
Stanford University

Sebastian Esteva, Event Volunteer

Undergraduate student in Engineering, 2026
Stanford University

Parking Details

Parking Location: Galvez Lot (L-96) (map from parking lot to event location)
Event Rate: $8 per car (Voucher code: ewear) 
Parking can be purchased before the event. (If you have any questions or cannot purchase the parking permit, help will be available at the registration desk, please ensure to bring your license plate number)

How to pay for parking step-by-step guide:

1. Navigate to https://stanford.aimsparking.com
2. Click “Purchase Event Permit”
3. Click “Daily Permits” as the Event Type
4. Click “eWEAR Health Prize” as the Event
5. Enter the Voucher Code: ewear
6. Click “Event Daily Galvez Permit” as the Permit Type
7. Select October 30, 2025 as the Start and End date
8. Click “Confirm”
9. Click “Add Vehicle” (or select your vehicle if you are logged into your profile)
   • You will need your Plate Number, State, Make, and Color of Car
10. Click “Confirm”
11. Review the Terms and Conditions and Click “Continue”
12. When paying by Credit Card, complete the requested information and Click “Checkout”
13. You should be taken to a confirmation page and a receipt will be emailed to you.

Safety Protocol:  Stanford strongly recommends to mask when ill with respiratory symptoms. Stanford University Covid-19 Policies.

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