A project that seeks to create a digitized immunization records system that tracks all the vaccinations taken by each person in the country by the St. Louis University in Baguio City earned the maiden award in the recently-concluded BPI-DOST Innovation Awards 2022 in Makati City.
These projects emerged as winners of the new BPI-DOST Innovation Awards, formerly known as the BPI Science Awards. Young innovators from the University of the Philippines – Visayas also received the BPI Innovation Award with its “Carbon Quantum Dots as Innovative Materials for Detection and Removal of Selected Aquatic Pollutants.”
The third winner is University of Santo Tomas’ “Artificial Intelligence-Based Prediction of Colorectal Cancer using miRNA Expression,” which designs, trains, and tests artificial neural networks in predicting the likelihood of colorectal cancer in patients using levels of expression of specific miRNAs found in blood plasma and colorectal tissue samples. “We aim to challenge our young minds to create innovations that matter for the betterment of our communities and ultimately, our country.