<p>[Princeton</a> University - Undergrad wins $100,000 to expand iPhone app for diabetics](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/10/88K09/index.xml?section=featured]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/10/88K09/index.xml?section=featured)</p>
<p>I don’t normally post news stories, but this is so awesome (I guess it’s the pre-med in me).</p>
<p>**Connor won second place in the Prize for Primary Healthcare competition from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), a nonprofit consortium of Boston teaching hospitals and engineering schools that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration to rapidly improve patient care. The prize was made available through the Gelfand Family Charitable Trust, which will support the annual award for five years.</p>
<p>“I was kind of overwhelmed realizing the other finalists were almost all Ph.D. students,” he said. “But I felt pretty confident, because what I was doing made sense and fit the criteria of the competition spot on.”</p>
<p>Connor was the only undergraduate to win funding in the competition, which sought to support effective medical technologies that rapidly could be put into use.</p>
<p>The funding will enable Connor to expand his program, dubbed Islet, to feed the data from the phones to a remote database that can be accessed through the Internet. This will allow Islet users to access their health data from any computer that is connected to the Internet and allow doctors to access the records and use them to help patients manage their diabetes. (Photo: Courtesy of Matthew Connor)
He won for proposing the iAbetics Web 2.0 Diabetes Management System, a website that will interact with the iPhone application he and his brother developed.**</p>
<p>PS: This girl’s pretty amazing too - <a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/03/23/23108/[/url]”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/03/23/23108/</a></p>