Biotechnology & medicine
Gloria Kolb
Devised a way to remove kidney stones more cost effectively and less invasively by taking advantage of the ureters tendency to dilate around foreign objects.
Global
Ryan Egeland
Slashed the cost of producing a DNA chip from hundreds of dollars to a few dollars by combining microfluidics, computer control, and novel electrochemistry.
Global
Smruti Vidwans
Development of drugs to assist in the battle against TB.
Global
Colin Hill
Aims to more than double human trials success rate by virtually prescreening drugs in computer models of human cells.
Global
Lauren Meyers
Helped public-health officials control epidemics of walking pneumonia and SARS with sophisticated mathematical models that predict how a disease will spread through networks of human interactions.