{"362561":{"#nid":"362561","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Partha Makes the Cut","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPartha Unnava had no idea he\u2019d made this year\u2019s Forbes magazine list of \u201930 Under 30 Who Are Moving the World,\u2019 not until he logged into his Twitter account.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cSomebody tweeted about it, a friend who made the list last year. That\u2019s how I found out,\u201d says Unnava, who started a company, Better Walk, while a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cIt came entirely out of the blue, definitely a good surprise to start a Monday.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForbes magazine released its fourth annual list of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/30under30\/#\/\u0022\u003E30-under-30\u003C\/a\u003E, what the magazine calls, \u201ctoday\u2019s greatest gathering of young game changers, movers and makers.\u201d This year\u2019s edition features 600 millennials in 20 different fields \u2013 30-under-30 in each, and Unnava made the cut in the Manufacturing division. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe timing and the division are appropriate, because the product Unnava developed while at Georgia Tech, the Better Walk crutch (the reason he is on the list), is about to go into small-run production. Unnava was a student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering when he developed the crutch after breaking his ankle playing basketball. He spent six weeks on a crutch. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIt was the worst thing ever, the worst six weeks of my life,\u201d he says. \u201cOver the next year I bounced around Georgia Tech talking about the idea.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe idea was to create a crutch that allowed users to rest in a manner that didn\u2019t put uncomfortable pressure on the armpits. So, along with his fellow biomedical engineering students, Frankie Swindell and Andrew Varghese, he \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bme-stories.gatech.edu\/bmestories\/work-experiences-f13\/\u0022\u003Estarted Better Walk\u003C\/a\u003E, and the response has been staggering \u2013 they even presented their product to President Barack Obama. Better Walk was also accepted into the Zero To 510 Medical Device Accelerator program in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, where it raised early venture funding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe were very fortunate. That validated us as a company, rather than a group of students with a project,\u201d says Unnava, who left Tech after last spring semester to focus on being CEO of Better Walk and growing the company. \u201cWe\u2019re getting ready to do a small run to get it into hospitals and scale up form there later this spring. It\u2019s pretty exciting times for us.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Better Walk founder on Forbes\u0027 30-under-30 list"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBetter Walk founder on \u003Cem\u003EForbes\u0027\u003C\/em\u003E 30-under-30 list\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Better Walk founder on Forbes\u0027 30-under-30 list"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2015-01-08 21:38:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:50","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"362551":{"id":"362551","type":"image","title":"Partha and Prez","body":null,"created":"1449245793","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:33","changed":"1475895098","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:38","alt":"Partha and Prez","file":{"fid":"201594","name":"partha_and_prez.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/partha_and_prez_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/partha_and_prez_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":297453,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/partha_and_prez_0.jpg?itok=gGtIp2Cn"}}},"media_ids":["362551"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bwcrutches.com\/","title":"Better Walk"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/30under30\/#\/","title":"Forbes 30-under-30"},{"url":"http:\/\/bme-stories.gatech.edu\/bmestories\/work-experiences-f13\/","title":"The Better Walk Experience"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"114061","name":"Better Walk"},{"id":"114071","name":"Unnava"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}