BME Undergrad Earns Biomedical Entrepreneur Startup Scholarship

The latest round of Arizona FORGE Biomedical Entrepreneur Startup Scholarship and Residency winners has been announced for summer 2023. The winners submitted outstanding proposals for startup concepts to improve patient health outcomes. BME major Abhiman Gupta was awarded a scholarship based on his proposal for the biomedical startup Un-afflict. 

This new scholarship and residency program for undergraduate students in any academic program, with an interest in creating a startup concept that improves health outcomes, applies toward University of Arizona tuition for fall 2023 and spring 2024. Under the program, the three scholarship recipients will take part in a specialized 13-week FORGE summer program and a 15-week paid residency in the fall semester with opportunities to continue into the spring.

Students will have access to FORGE resources and will meet regularly with industry experts, investors, mentors in residence and advisors to create custom development plans and develop guided pathways to accelerate scale-up and launch for their biomedical startups. As part of the program, the students will gain access to FORGE meeting spaces, board rooms, community resources, and the entire mentor network.

“It was incredibly exciting to see the breadth and depth of the student proposals. We received a large pool of applicants that demonstrated innovative, solution-focused thinking,” said FORGE biomedical Mentor in Residence John Achoukian.