NYU WIRELESS medical students Leeor Alon, Gene Young Cho, and Cem Murat Deniz received the first place award in three competitions/grants for their startup RF Test Labs, Inc. The team first went on to win the NYU Stern School of Business’s (NYU Stern) Entrepreneurs Challenge; this Challenge is one of the largest university startup competitions in the country and has taken place for 13 years. The $50,000 prize will fund work by RF Test Labs to develop technology for measuring radio frequency (RF) power deposition generated by RF emitting devices like cell phones.

The team then went on to win the Korean Scientists and Engineers of America(KSEA) Young Generation Technical and Leadership Committee (YGTLC) Business Venture Competition 2012($10,000). The Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association is a 40-year-old non-profit professional organization with over 5,000 members across the US, with a vision to promote the application of science and technology for the general welfare of society.

Lastly, the team was awarded $68,000 by the Applied Research Support Fund for their proposal on Novel Magnetic Resonance Radio Frequency Emissions Testing (MR-RFET) for quantifying RF emissions from wireless under the leadership of Daniel K. Sodickson, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director, NYU WIRELESS.