Devanshee Kansara, BTech, Class of 2026, Wins InventX 2025 at IIT Jammu for Cutting-Edge Biomedical Device

A compact asthma spacer designed and developed by a student team, led by our student Devanshee Kansara, BTech​​​​, Class of 2026, won first prize at InventX 2025, a national-level innovation and prototyping programme hosted at IIT Jammu.

Her team, which included IIT Bhubaneswar students Jyotiraditya Bag and Nabil Suraj, developed a device that attaches directly to a metered-dose inhaler. Unlike conventional bulky spacers, their design is pocket-friendly and uses a uniquely engineered internal geometry to improve medication delivery into the lungs. This enhances drug absorption and patient comfort while reducing waste.

The final working prototype was evaluated by a panel of experts and received a unanimous 9/9 jury vote, securing first place and a monetary award. The team has also filed a provisional patent in India and the United States.

InventX, formerly known as Invention Factory, is a six-week residential innovation programme supported by the Maker Bhavan Foundation. During the programme, Devanshee's team followed an intensive iterative process involving design research, CAD modelling, and multiple rounds of prototyping.

To validate their mechanism, they performed high-speed plume visualisation, deposition studies, fluid simulations, and computer vision-based analysis to demonstrate how the spacer achieves better droplet size and reduced velocity- key factors for deeper lung drug delivery.

The competition brought together 30 top students from across the country, selected from over 900 applicants, and trained them to build real, patentable prototypes.

Devanshee and her team addressed a crucial healthcare challenge, exhibiting how intensive prototyping and rigorous scientific validation can lead to impactful, patentable solutions. Their work is an inspiration for young innovators to create real-world change.