MuscleMorph won the ‘Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs annual business plan competition and first prize of $20,000 on April 25th. The team included Rahul Kothari, a Wharton MBA student and Rodrigo Alvarez, an inventor and doctoral student in bioengineering at Stanford University. MuscleMorph’s most promising initial application would be prosthetic limbs — including those used by 1.8 million amputees in the U.S. Other finalists in the competition included Biometric Payment Solutions, Focus Therapeutics, Home-Base, iBroker, IntelliStem Orthopaedic Innovations, Leto Pharmaceuticals, and OrthoLab Technologies.
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