Andrew Darling, MEM PhD candidate, a finalist of the 2005 Business Plan Competition, came in third place to win a cash award of $4,000.

Hosted by the Laurence A. Baida Center for Entrepreneurship in Technology, six finalists competed to win cash awards and presented at the 2005 Entrepreneur Conference, held on May 26.

Darling, with the aid of his advisor, Dr. Wei Sun (MEM), presented his work "Biostrut: Practical Tissue Engineering Applications" at the competition.