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Georg Holthoff and his international team win first prize of project competition during Summer Camp 2022 at Univ. of Tokyo

28.11.2022

Between August 1-3, 2022, the "University of Tokyo GMSI/WINGS Summer Camp 2022" was organized by the School of Engineering of the University of Tokyo and held in online format due to the Corona restrictions in Japan. WINGS stands for 'World-Leading Innovative Graduate Study Program' and GMSI is the 'Graduate program für Mechanical Systems Innovation'. Besides presentations by reknowned scientists, the core of the program featured a project proposal competition around the given task to propose "A device for the "New Normal" after COVID-19".

The first prize of this competition was awarded to an international team, including Georg Holthoff from the LMU Chair of Medical Physics. The team (shown on the photograph with the winner's certificate shown below) won the award for their project presentation on the " ‘Clean Scan’ Hand Scanner: Analytical detection of COVID-19 and other biological entities".

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The international team (spread over many time zones) developed from scratch the research project idea with detailed assessment of a methodological workflow, underlying scientific principles, data analysis and reporting procedures, comparison to existing testing methods up to a detailed roadmap with milestones, budget forecast and decentralized work packages across the home institutions of the team members.

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