Student engineers design a solution to address common dialysis complication

It's not uncommon for college students to balk at the idea of group work, but Johns Hopkins engineering student Sarah Lee says she can't imagine finding the success she has with her award-winning medical device company without help and input from her team.

Her company, Relavo, has designed a potentially life-saving product called PeritoneX to address the high infection rate in patients using peritoneal dialysis to treat kidney failure. The team has won more than $41,000 in funding over the past year and was recently named a finalist in the National Collegiate Inventors Competition and showcase, which takes place Wednesday at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.
The idea began as a design team project when Lee was a Johns Hopkins undergraduate student.
"The opportunity to actually own your work in design team motivates you more than a grade ever could, and when you bring a group of people who are all equally devoted to a project rather than a grade together, it makes for an incredible experience," says Lee, now a graduate student in the university's Department of Biomedical Engineering. --> READ MORE