Code Life Ventilator Challenge - Défi Respirateur Code Vie
The $200k challenge to design a 3D printable ventilator for COVID-19 patients everywhere
#codelifechallenge
15/12/2020
*WINNING TEAM* After a thorough examination of the 3 finalist protoypes of the CODE LiFE Ventilator Challenge, we are proud to announce the winning team. Congratulations to Haply Robotics from Montreal who will be awarded a prize of $ 200,000!
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Their ventilator, chosen for its simplicity, low cost and ease of use, should soon be launched in production for less than $1,000, and benefit low- and middle-income countries.
https://codelifechallenge.com/winningteam/
We wish to thank the partners who supported the CODE LiFE Ventilator Challenge, the Fondation Hôpital général de Montréal, Montreal General Hospital Foundation, the McGill Faculty of Engineering and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, and our sponsors, Scotiabank, MD Financial Management - Gestion financière MD, the Canadian Medical Association, Agorize, as well as all the generous donors who made this initiative possible.
Winning Team - Code Life Challenge Haply wins the CODE LiFE Ventilator Challenge The Montreal General Hospital Foundation and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (RI-MUHC), in partnership with the McGill Faculty of Engineering, are pleased to announce the winner team of the CODE LiFE Ventilator Challenge (CL...
13/10/2020
Le Devoir salue l'ingéniosité, l'esprit de collaboration et la créativité des ingénieurs en temps de pandémie. Dans cet article du dossier 'Génie québecois', on parle du Défi Respirateur Code Vie, notre sprint de 2 semaines pour concevoir un respirateur d'urgence. 👏
Lisez l'article ici : https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/sante/587383/l-effet-covid-innovation-a-vitesse-grand-v
Les ingénieurs innovent à vitesse grand V Quand les ingénieurs relèvent leurs manches pour faire face aux défis de la pandémie.
17/09/2020
Challenging the world to develop an affordable ventilator. This is what the Made For All challenge - part 2 of the Code Life Ventilator Challenge - is all about!
Join us next week, September 24, to talk about the challenge with Dr Farivar and other McGill Alumni. (Registration closes Sept 22)
https://www.alumni.mcgill.ca/aoc/events-travel/EventDetails.php?id=NDA4NDI=
07/08/2020
« Le gros du défi, en fait, ça a été d’avoir accès à du matériel. On travaillait à distance, en raison du confinement, et les délais de livraison augmentaient. »
Alors que nous entrons dans la 2e phase du défi 'Made For All', Genium360 s'est entretenu avec 2 des 3 équipes finalistes du . Ce sont leurs respirateurs que les manufacturiers tenteront maintenant de ramener à un coût inférieur à 1000 $ CAD.
Lisez l'article complet ici :
https://blogue.genium360.ca/article/innovation/covid-19-entretien-avec-les-laureats-du-defi-code-vie/
Covid-19 : entretien avec les lauréats du Défi Code Vie Retour sur le Défi Code Vie qui visait à concevoir un nouveau ventilateur fiable, sécuritaire et abordable en un temps record. Découvrez les lauréats ici :
Canadian Life Sciences covered the launch of our 'Made For All' Challenge, part 2 of the .
Read more here and sign up!
👉 http://www.canadianlifesciences.com/ca/portal/news_details.php?news_id=20909751k$SntB8pvAmk5ac&page_id=?next=1
05/08/2020
To become a solver of Phase 2 'Made for All', you must form a team of compliance and manufacturing experts and be able to bring the cost of the finalist ventilators to less than $ 1,000 CAD per unit.
Canadian Healthcare Technology covered the launch of this exciting new challenge :
https://www.canhealth.com/2020/08/05/made-for-all-challenge-to-yield-affordable-ventilators/
With:
McGill University McGill Faculty of Engineering McGill Engine Fondation Hôpital général de Montréal, Montreal General Hospital Foundation
HeroX
04/08/2020
🤩The Code Life Ventilator Challenge launches a second phase : 'Made for All' !
The challenge : with the help of manufacturing and compliance experts, bring down the cost of the finalist ventilators to under 1000$ CAD per unit.
The goal : to make low-cost ventilator available to developing countries before the second wave of COVID-19 hits.
Read the details of the Made For All challenge here : https://www.mghfoundation.com/en/news/welcome-to-the-second-phase-of-the-code-life-ventilator-challenge/
The Second Phase Of The Code Life Ventilator Challenge Is On! - Code Life McGill Engine, the Faculty of Engineering’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre at McGill University, in partnership with the Montreal General Hospital Foundation, joined forces with HeroX, the leading crowdsourcing platform for global problem-solving, to launch the “Made for All” challenge...
04/07/2020
Did you know that the had participants from 94 countries? We also had a phenomenal participation from teams across Canada, including a team from the University of Manitoba. Read on :
https://news.umanitoba.ca/3d-printed-ventilator/
UM team develop inexpensive 3D-printed ventilator following shortage Doctors around the world could turn to a made-in-Manitoba design if hospitals experience a ventilator shortage during the second wave of COVID-19. A group of University of Manitoba professors have dev
03/07/2020
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Canadians came together to find solutions and innovate. In this video, Heritage salutes many wonderful scientific collaborations, including the initiative to create emergency medical ventilators.
Canada Day 2020 — Let’s innovate together! Wanted: Bright minds to innovate, collaborate and help conquer a global pandemic. Discover how Canadians are voluntarily contributing to the fight against CO...
19/06/2020
With a 3D printer borrowed from his company ESA, an employee and his team designed BreatHere, an emergency ventilator and one of the 9 semi-finalist prototypes.
Read more about it in this article by La Terre de chez nous :
ESA prête son imprimante 3D pour fabriquer des respirateurs | La Terre de Chez Nous Dans le cadre d’un concours mondial, William Chabot-Labbé, un employé du fabricant d’échangeurs d’air pour les bâtiments agricoles ESA, a relevé tout un défi. Son équipe et lui ont conçu d’urgence un respirateur capable de répondre aux besoins hospitaliers pour les personnes atteint...
15/06/2020
Lung Carburetor designed one of top 3 prototypes of the . Meet their team from Montreal and Charlevoix, Canada.
👉 https://youtu.be/fX6iECxqmfo
Lung Carburetor - #CodeLifeChallenge finalists In this video, meet the Lung Carburetor team from Montreal and Charlevoix, Canada. Their ventilator design was one of the 3 best prototypes selected for the ...
Want to know more about the people behind one the 3 best ventilator designs that made it to the finals?
In this video, meet Haply Robotics, a team from Montreal, Canada.
05/06/2020
The keeps being mentioned in the media! 🤩
Read this article in the Canadian Business Journal about how cloud software company Blackbaud helped power the fundraising component of the challenge :https://www.cbj.ca/municipal-news/?rkey=20200604C5312&filter=4784
😮The BBC talked about our Code Life Ventilator Challenge in their segment on the Global Ventilator Race.
Dr. Reza Farivar speaks @ 11min25 😉
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000j803
Last week, we celebrated the announcement of our 3 finalist teams! They won over our jury with their low-cost, reliable and easy-to-manufacture designs.
07/05/2020
Live or relive the LIVE announcement of our 3 finalists! Haply, IFPR and Lung Carburetor 👏🤩
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilK8e3pi9Mg
#CodeLifeChallenge : finalist ventilator designs reveal - annonce des prototypes finalistes
06/05/2020
Congratulations to our 3 finalist teams :
🏅IFPR from
🏅Lung Carburetor from
🏅& Haply from Canada
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You've done amazing work building to help patients worldwide!
Thank you!
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Next steps :
1- designs will be available for manufacturing worldwide in the next few days
2 - There will be a second challenge: manufacturers will work with teams and McGill Engine to have ventilators produced for under 1000 $ CAD.
All details coming up here : https://codelifechallenge.com
06/05/2020
We are LIVE, join us now! 😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilK8e3pi9Mg
#CodeLifeChallenge : finalist ventilator designs reveal - annonce des prototypes finalistes
04/05/2020
A great explanation by youtuber Scilabus of what it takes to build a ventilator in just 2 weeks.
Awesome video guys, check it out :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCpa1CLhUwQ&feature=youtu.be
Quand les makers se réunissent pour aider Comment peut-on concevoir un respirateur alors que cela prend 3 à 7 ans d'habitude ? Quelles concessions sont faites ? Comment peut-on accélérer le processus...
30/04/2020
details here : https://www.mghfoundation.com/en/news/ventilator-challenge-announcement-of-finalists/
Are you curious to know who the 9 semi-finalist teams of the are?
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In no particular order, here they are :
YGK
Haply
IFRP Brazil
BreathHere
Breeze
Fanshawe-Toyota-RT
MonVent
Lung Carburetor
FlowO2
The testing phase of the Code Life Challenge is soon coming to an end. In the last couple of days, our panel of experts has been working hard to thoroughly test 9 prototypes, selected among the 1029 we had received.
As you know, this is a crucial phase: ventilators can be life-saving devices, but can also cause harm if not functioning properly.
Thank you for your patience as this process takes longer than we originally anticipated!
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As we await the announcement of our 3 finalist teams, we invite you to watch this short video by Great Things Studios - Video Production & Recording Studio
15/04/2020
We know you are all feverishly anticipating the results of the !
Rest assured, we are not making you wait in vain : prototypes are arriving to our lab this week.
In the coming days, all selected prototypes will be tested by our panel of experts, and the finalists will be announced.
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We are just as excited as you are...stay tuned!
03/04/2020
Une autre équipe du dans la mire de La Presse. Feront-ils partie des finalistes?
Course f***e pour créer un respirateur bon marché Une course mondiale pour concevoir un respirateur simple, bon marché et fiable pour affronter le pic de la crise s’intensifie dans les sphères du génie et ...
01/04/2020
Une de nos équipes inscrites au est présentée dans ce reportage de Radio-Canada Information.
Nous sommes pleins d'admiration face à tous ces groupes qui ont travaillé d'arrache-pied pour créer rapidement des prototypes de ventilateur pouvant répondre à la crise du .
C'est inspirant!
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1689803/covid-19-ventilateur-respirateur-sherbrooke-universite-penurie
COVID-19 : des professionnels de l’Estrie créent un nouveau respirateur | Coronavirus Le respirateur pourrait répondre rapidement à la demande pendant la pandémie de COVID-19.
Submissions closed last night. So what happens next?
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Until April 5, the advisory panel will review all submissions and select the top 6 best designs to move on to the next phase.
Stay tuned, we'll continue to provide updates in the coming days! 😃
Just 12 hours left! 😲
Deadline for submissions is tonight at midnight EST
Excited to see what happens next?
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30/03/2020
"[The ] goal is not simply to come up with a single approach to the problem of ventilator supply, but ideally to stimulate a number of viable designs, some of which may be more suitable to addressing the needs for ventilators in other parts of the world."
👉 Several other great initiatives are presented in the article
Nobel laureate leads push for simple made-in-Canada ventilator How well Canada comes through the COVID-19 pandemic will depend crucially on its supply of ventilators
27/03/2020
Please consider supporting the Code Life Ventilator challenging by donating to the MGH Foundation, the challenge organizer.🙏
Each and every contribution makes a difference :
Faire un don au Défi Respirateur Code Vie - Code Vie En raison de la crise liée au COVID-19, une pénurie mondiale de respirateurs a été déclenchée. C’est pourquoi la Fondation de l’Hôpital général de Montréal, en partenariat avec l’IR-CUSM, lance une initiative mondiale afin de trouver une solution. Votre don soutiendra la conception d...
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