Congratulations Yee Lab graduate students for winning the 2016 MIT Convergence Idea Challenge, a national competition launched to encourage emerging researchers to combine various disciplines to improve human health!

The UCI team won both the 1st Place Grand Prize of $3,000 and the Community Choice award of $1,000 for their artificial bio-nanoelectronics retina idea. The winning research was also mentioned at the National Academy of Sciences alongside the release of a convergence policy report, “Convergence: The Future of Health.” The competition was sponsored and judged by a panel of eminent scientists: Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp, MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Director Tyler Jacks.