When Collin Hill was 19, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
During his first semester at Penn, he’d travel to New York City every other weekend to undergo chemotherapy. Chemotherapy weakens your immune system, so every night, he’d have to monitor his temperature to make sure he wasn't running a fever. Sometimes he’d wake up with a 104-degree fever and have to be rushed to the ER.
Two years later, Hill, a native of Greenwich, Conn., is in remission. But he was frustrated that there was no way he could keep track of his temperature throughout the night and get alerts when it was rising. So, along with a team of Penn students, he developed a wireless thermometer that could do just that.
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