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LyoOptic: Fall 2025 Burton D. Morgan Finalist
LyoOptic was a Top 10 Fall 2025 Burton D. Morgan finalist from Purdue's LyoHUB ecosystem, focused on real-time sensing for pharmaceutical freeze-drying.
Historical finalist profile — Fall 2025. This page was published in 2026 from Purdue LyoHUB, founder, and competition sources.
LyoOptic was a Top 10 finalist.
Team attribution in public sources: the organizer's finalist announcement lists Evgenia Vorozhbit and Denis Vorozhbit; Purdue's later competition archive lists Denis Vorozhbit and Jane Vorozhbit.
What LyoOptic was building
Purdue's competition archive describes the Fall 2025 pitch as in-vial sensing for pharmaceutical manufacturing, intended to unlock process control and quality assurance for equipment makers, pharmaceutical companies and contract development/manufacturing organizations.
Purdue's LyoHUB provides additional technical context, describing the concept as a novel real-time sensor for process monitoring and quality control in lyophilization, or freeze-drying.
Research-to-venture context
Evgenia Vorozhbit's public research trail includes work on freeze-drying and vial behavior through Purdue LyoHUB. Because the organizer announcement and Purdue's later archive disagree on the second team member attribution, buildpurdue preserves both records rather than silently choosing one.
That background gives LyoOptic a direct research-to-commercialization context. The team used Burton Morgan to frame technical work around a pharmaceutical-market problem and early-stage venture concept.
Sources
- Purdue's Burton D. Morgan competition archive
- LyoHUB finalist announcement and product description
- Evgenia Vorozhbit's post-competition reflection
- Purdue Fall 2025 final event