Falling Walls Lab

Breakthrough Winners

Searching for breakthrough inspiration? Browse through the videos below to see the pitches that led past Falling Walls Lab finale participants to their win. From Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim’s 2012 pitch on ‘Breaking the Wall of the Human Cell‘ to Tamlyn Sasha Naidu’s 2022 pitch on ‘Breaking the Wall of Acid Mine Drainage‘, past Breakthrough Winners have spanned the disciplines and the globe!

ALTERNATIVE PLASTICS
Joseph Bedard

DEMENTIA
Yizhou Yu

CANCER THERAPY RESISTANCE
Emma-Anne Karlsen

ACID MINE DRAINAGE
Tamlyn Sasha Naidu

TILE MANUFACTURING
Emma Horn

TUBERCULOSIS
Ayushi Chauhan

INEFFECTIVE CANCER THERAPIES
Ana Montalban-Arques

DARKNESS
Emmie Chiyindiko

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
Christian Scharun

NEONATAL HEALTH DISPARITY
Shawana Tabassum

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT INFECTIONS
Amit Rimon

ENERGY INSECURITY IN AFRICA
Chelsea Tucker

UNSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Humberto Martínez Barrón

ENERGY-EFFICIENT DATA STORAGE
Jonas K. H. Fischer

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
Khalil Moussi

FAST CHARGING
Marie-Claude Bay

SAFE WATER ACCESS
Micaela Belmonte

DEMOCRATIZING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Mutembei Kariuki

DATA LATENCY AND LOSS
Tanmay Dutta

BROKEN GLASS
Rhys Pirie

UNLABELED DATA
Mariëlle van kooten

AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND WASTE PLASTIC
Rushabh Chheda

INEFFICIENT FILTERS
Ankita Poudyal

BRAILLE LITERACY
Adam Fulop

SURGICAL ERROR
Ahmed Ghazi

OVARIAN CANCER DIAGNOSIS
Agnes Reiner

MOSQUITO BORNE DISEASES
SRILAHARI NAMANI

WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Ashwin Charles

BIOMEDICAL NANOROBOTS
Maxim Nikitin

CLEAN ENERGY BY PLASTIC WASTE
Nouf AlJabri

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