Nanofiber Solutions wins 2009 Deloitte Business Plan Competition
A team presenting a newly patented nanotechnology device won the 2009 Deloitte Business Plan Competition on Saturday, May 16. The team, Nanofiber Solutions, developed a start-up business plan to market nanofiber mats to improve screening and research in biomedical fields.
The winning team received $95,000 in cash and services to use as start-up funds to transform their idea into a thriving business.
The Nanofiber Solutions team included Jed Johnson, a doctoral candidate in Ohio State’s Materials Science in Engineering; John Lannutti, associate professor in the materials science engineering program; Brian Barnhart, an MBA candidate at Carnegie Mellon and Ross Kayuha, CEO at Columbus-based Strategic Thinking Industries.
The members of the Deloitte Business Plan Competition’s winning team, as well as members of the second-place and third-place teams—Bionovations and IR Diagnostyx—are all graduates of Ohio State’s Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Academy offered by the Center for Entrepreneurship at Fisher College of Business.
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