LSF Medical Solutions honored at Innovation Challenge Awards

LSF Medical Solutions took home the first place prize at the Innovation Challenge Awards event on Nov. 16 at MERGE in Iowa City.
LSF Medical Solutions took home the first place prize at the Innovation Challenge Awards event on Nov. 16 at MERGE in Iowa City. CREDIT DARREN MILLER

LSF Medical Solutions won first place and $20,000 for Best Technology in the incubator startup division at the Innovation Challenge Awards at MERGE in Iowa City.

Their electronic device, called Pneumero, is a cloud-based app that measures airway in the lungs at home, according to a press release.

Aptafi, a contrast agent that temporarily attaches to the interior of arteries and can be seen throughout the duration of a procedure after only one injection, placed second and won $13,000. Third place went to AugmENT, a company that assists universities with student recruitment and school promotion.

Across two divisions, 17 teams combined to win $74,500 from the University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (Iowa JPEC). There were 70 applicants with pitches being held Nov. 14 (for graduate students/faculty/staff/incubator startups) and Nov. 15 (for undergraduates).

Two undergraduate teams took home first place and both won $5,000. Expeeriant, providing live-in advertising to guests in vacation rental homes, won Best Non-Technology. Version 5.0, a device to measure the femur’s rotational correction in a reliable way, won first place for Best Technology, the release said.

LSF Medical Solutions was one of two Iowa City-based startups named a finalist for the 2022 Prometheus Awards in the Startup Technology Company of the Year category, but fellow Iowa City-based startup S5G Therapeutics Inc. was named the winner.