The Grand Prize of a prestigious innovation competition won by a member of the Scientific Senate of the Dan Voiculescu Foundation for Romania’s Development

This year, the Grand Prize of the International Conference on Student Innovation and Scientific Research – Cadet INOVA’23 was awarded to Cristian Fodor, who presented the results of a biomechanical study conducted with a self-developed device, of significant importance in the military and medical fields. The work, coordinated by Prof. Univ. Seghedin, is a medical prototype that performs biomechanical assessments in gait analysis for both healthy individuals and amputees.

Cristian Fodor has been a member of the Scientific Senate of the Dan Voiculescu Foundation for Romania’s Development since 2020 and was guided in his research by Prof. Univ. Dr. Neculai Eugen Seghedin from the ‘Gheorghe Asachi’ Technical University of Iași.

The result was appreciated by the scientific committee of the conference, for which he received the Grand Prize of the scientific event. ‘The presence of medical technology and the good understanding of its use by healthcare specialists ensure a favorable development of the medical system, which we greatly need. At the same time, there is a thirst for medical personnel for technology that we, in the technical field, can satisfy. Surely, in the future, these technologies created by us will play a primary role in proactive, predictive, personalized, and perhaps autonomous medical care,’ said Cristian Fodor.

The International Conference on Student Innovation and Scientific Research – Cadet INOVA’23 was organized from May 4th to May 6th by the ‘Nicolae Bălcescu’ Land Forces Academy in Sibiu, under the auspices of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM).