Richards-Kortum, Oden share Lemelson-MIT award, donate $100,000 prize money to Malawi hospital for new nursery
Rice University bioengineering professors Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden, the winners of the 2013 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation, are dedicating their prize money toward the construction of a new neonatal nursery at the African hospital that has helped implement Rice's low-cost, student-designed health care technologies since 2007. The nursery will improve patient care at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, and support technology innovation through Rice's Day One project.
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Wed, May 01, 2013 8:00 AM •
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Day One: The team behind the project
Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden
Professors of bioengineering Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden of Rice University received the 2013 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation for developing health innovations for the world’s poorest communities in partnership with undergraduate students through their engineering design initiative at Rice, Beyond Traditional Borders.
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Rice 360° brings together an international group of faculty, students, clinicians, and private and public sector partners to design innovative health technologies for poor settings, to develop and implement entrepreneurial approaches that increase access to these technologies around the world, and to prepare students to lead tomorrow’s global health technology workforce.
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