Nationality American | Fields Bioengineer Field Biological engineering | |
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Notable awards National Academy of Engineering,National Academy of Sciences,American Academy of Arts and Sciences,MacArthur Fellow Books Biomedical Engineering for Global Health, Biomedicl Engineering Global Health | ||
Bioengineer rebecca richards kortum 2016 macarthur fellow
Rebecca Richards-Kortum is an American bioengineer and the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University. She is a professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and she is the Director of Rice 360°: Institute for Global Health, and the Founder of Beyond Traditional Borders.
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- Bioengineer rebecca richards kortum 2016 macarthur fellow
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Richards-Kortum specializes in creating new technologies to provide health care to vulnerable populations, including methods for diagnosis of cancers, methods for treating jaundice in newborns, and a bubble continuous positive airway pressure machine for premature infants unable to breathe on their own.
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Honors and Awards
In recognition of her work, Richards-Kortum received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 and the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. In 2016 she received the Pierre Galletti Award, the highest honor from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), for her contributions to global health care and bioengineering technology.
In her Pierre Galletti address to the AIMBE, she noted that the biggest career-transition gender disparity occurs at the graduate student/postdoc-to-assistant professor step, and she challenged the leaders in bioengineering to encourage women to pursue academic positions, especially at the "20th mile" of the academic "marathon."
