Manu Prakash is an Indian scientist who is a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Manu was born in Meerut, India. He is best known for his contributions to the Foldscope[1] and Paperfuge.[2] Prakash received the MacArthur Fellowship in September 2016. He and his team are also working on a water droplet based computer in Stanford University. His work focuses on frugal innovation that makes medicine, computing and microscopy accessible to more people across the world.[3][4][5]
Manu Prakash | |
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 Prakash at TED (2017) | |
| Alma mater | MIT, IIT Kanpur |
| Known for | Foldscope, Paperfuge |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellows Program (2016), TED Senior Fellow (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioengineering |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Neil Gershenfeld |
Early life and education edit
Manu Prakash was born in Meerut, India. He earned a BTech in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and an M.S. and PhD in Applied Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6]
Notable work edit
Foldscope edit
A Foldscope is an optical microscope that can be assembled from simple components, including a sheet of paper and a lens. It was developed by Jim Cybulski and Manu Prakash and designed to cost less than US$1 to build. It is part of the "frugal science" movement which aims to make cheap and easy tools available for scientific use in the developing world.[7]
Paperfuge edit
Paperfuge is a Hand-powered ultralow-cost paper centrifuge designed by Manu Prakash and Members at Prakash Lab. Inspired from the whirlygig toy configuration, Dr. Manu designed a centrifuge using the toy's design and Supercoiling-mediated ultrafast spinning dynamics. The Paperfuge can be used to separate Plasma and RBC for rapid Malaria diagnosis in remote areas.[8][9][10]
Awards edit
TED Fellow 2009, TED Fellow 2010, TED Senior Fellow 2011[11]
Gates Foundation Global Health “Explorations” Grant 2012[12]
NIH Director's New Innovator Award 2015[13]
MacArthur Fellow 2016[14]
Unilever Colworth Prize 2020[15]
References edit
- ^ "A Microscope to Save the World". The New Yorker. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "The Paperfuge: A 20-Cent Device That Could Transform Health Care". Wired. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^ MacArthur Foundation. "Manu Prakash". Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ John Markoff, "Science Tools anyone can afford", New York Times April 21, 2014 [1] Accessed 21 July 2019.
- ^ "TED Fellows". Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ Stanford University. "Manu Prakash". Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- ^ Cybulski, James S.; Clements, James; Prakash, Manu (18 June 2014). "Foldscope: Origami-Based Paper Microscope". PLOS ONE. 9 (6): e98781. arXiv:1403.1211. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...998781C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098781. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4062392. PMID 24940755.
- ^ Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper | Manu Prakash, retrieved 7 February 2020
- ^ Bhamla, M. Saad; Benson, Brandon; Chai, Chew; Katsikis, Georgios; Johri, Aanchal; Prakash, Manu (10 January 2017). "Hand-powered ultralow-cost paper centrifuge". Nature Biomedical Engineering. 1 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1038/s41551-016-0009. ISSN 2157-846X.
- ^ "A low-cost, hand-powered paper centrifuge". National Institutes of Health (NIH). 30 January 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
- ^ "Manu Prakash's TED Profile". www.ted.com. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- ^ "Bioengineer Prakash wins Gates Foundation global health "Explorations" grant | Bioengineering". bioengineering.stanford.edu. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- ^ "NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program - 2015 Award Recipients | NIH Common Fund". commonfund.nih.gov. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- ^ "Manu Prakash - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- ^ Society, Microbiology. "News". microbiologysociety.org. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
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