Clemson University

Breanne Przestrzelski has been a University Innovation Fellow at Clemson University since November 2013, where she is pursuing her PhD degree. Breanne will be a “Triple Grad” from the Clemson University Bioengineering Program, obtaining her B.S. in May 2012 (research focus: nanomedicine technology), her M.S. degree in August 2013 (research focus: glenoid loading and stability of the inlay verus onlay shoulder system) and her Ph.D. in August 2016 (research focus: innovation and design in and beyond sports biomedical engineering). Breanne was a four-year varsity collegiate athlete, rowing for the Clemson University Women’s Rowing Team, where she learned how to foster her team-centered leadership. Breanne moved on to leading her Senior Design Capstone Team to a 1st Place finish in the 2012 NCIIA (now VentureWell) BMEStart Undergraduate Design Competition for the team’s innovation: Assurefit, a chest tube stabilization device. Breanne found her drive for innovation and fascination with design during the development of this technology, and since has become co-director of a high school bioengineering design program, Design Discovery(tm), student founder of The DEN (Design & Entrepreneurship Network)(tm), and co-director of a high-school entrepreneurship outreach program, LemonADE Stand(tm).