Past PInCh Contests
In 2022, PInCh offered Bonus Awards for Engineering Good Health to teams with Pitt faculty leads from both the School of Engineering and Schools of Health Sciences.
PInCh 2021 offered additional support to projects that aimed to prevent and/or reduce health disparities.
The first ever virtual PInCh offered bonus funding for projects that impacted aspects of health related to an epidemic or pandemic.
The seventh Pitt Innovation Challenge focused on bold ideas that solve health-related problems.
The fifth Pitt Innovation Challenge focused on solving important health problems using wearable technology.
Innovative solutions to improve health with a focus on connections that bridge the lifespan.
The third Pitt Innovation Challenge focused on ideas for how to enhance health by bridging factors that impact different life stages. Innovative solutions included interventions, provider or patient tools, community programs, or any other approach that involved a linkage between at least two life stages (including predictive solutions, preventative ideas, and diagnostics across the lifespan and multiple generations).
The second Pitt Innovation Challenge again sparked fresh ideas surrounding challenges in health. Proposals included solutions to problems ranging from individualized medical testing to patient data tools to community and contexts that impact an individual’s health.
The inaugural Pitt Innovation Challenge focused on generating creative ideas spanning the spectrum of health and health care delivery, including ideas for informing, activating, and engaging people in their own disease prevention, care, or treatment.
