PITCH PERFECT |12 teams entered our Big Bang! Poster Contest to practice their pitch, both visually and verbally, before more than 50 entrepreneurially inclined observers.

Meet the winners.

• FIRST PLACE | OOMNI INC. | Small-molecule add-on drugs for potentiation of chemotherapy regimen while reducing side effects
  
  The Team: Paul Henderson, associate professor + Maike Zimmerman, postdoctoral fellow,  both UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine, Division Hematology/Oncology
   
• SECOND PLACE and PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD | CHROMATISCOPE | Modular educational device that has the functionality of several multi-thousand-dollar machines, is easy to use leveraging smartphones

  The Team: UC Davis alumni Nick Dao and Alex Godbout + Lisa Illes, UC Davis undergraduate, biological systems engineering