2025 Health Sciences and Technology Hokie Pitch
students pitch ideas
2025 Health Sciences and Technology Hokie Pitch
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025
2 p.m.
Room G101 A/B, Riverside 4
Reception follows in Riverside 4 Lobby
About the event
Virginia Tech students will pitch biomedical commercialization ideas to a “Shark Tank”-style panel of judges at 2 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5, during the Health Sciences and Technology (HS&T) Hokie Pitch. A reception follows with winners announced a short time later.
The competition will involve graduate students who have worked with real-world mentors, selected intellectual property, and created an entrepreneurial plan to develop and commercialize biomedical discoveries. Viewers can watch the live webcast of the teams making their pitches beginning at 2 p.m. Thursday.
The competition involves five teams of Virginia Tech students in the Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health (TBMH) graduate program. The students will compete for $5,000 in cash prizes. The competition is sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, the Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black law firm, and National Bank of Blacksburg.
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