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UVic biomedical engineers reimagine 150-year-old vaginal examination device
The Revyn team recently took home the Herbert B. Jones Foundation Second Place Prize in the amount of $10 000.
At the end of February, a team of UVic students and recent graduates received an award for their innovative re-design of the vaginal speculum — a medical device which has changed only incrementally in 150 years, and causes patients physical and emotional discomfort across the board. Keeley McCormick, Samantha Sperling, Joshua Latimer, Zoe Crookshank, and Devon Carmichael belong to the company Revyn Medical Technologies, which they founded following a successful class project. According to McCormick, Revyn’s CEO, the initial inspiration for the redesign came from one team member in particular, who was introduced to the vaginal speculum after witnessing his partner have a procedure done.
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