Student Wins Prize at Yale Innovation Summit
Sandra Lynne Fryhofer ’19, a JD-MBA Candidate at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management, was the recipient of a second place prize for the tech pitch contest during the Yale Innovation Summit.
Fryhofer won the prize with her classmate, Sandra Saldana-Ortega, PhD (MBA ’17). The team won $2,000 for a project titled Rio Medical – an off-the-shelf filter that plugs into standard IV lines and purges gas from infusions.
The fourth annual Yale Innovation Summit on May 10 presented by the Office of Cooperative Research (OCR) and Yale Entrepreneurial Institute provided a window into an expanding entrepreneurial ecosystem at Yale, particularly around biotech and tech discoveries. Interest in entrepreneurship from both faculty and student populations is on the rise, new technologies and discoveries are happening across campus, and the world outside Yale’s walls is taking notice. Nearly 600 were in attendance—including representatives from over 35 venture capital firms—and there was real energy and enthusiasm throughout the day’s panels, keynotes, pitch contests and outdoor poster session
