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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: [Poverty Week] The Intersection
of Health and Technology: Dr. Utkan Demirci, Room 6-120,
7PM</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:15:36
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color="#996633"><b>MIT Global Poverty Initiative
presents:</b></font></blockquote>
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size="+2"><b>A Low-Cost HIV/AIDS Diagnostic: The Intersection of
Health and Technology</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman"
size="+2"><i><b>Dr. Utkan Demirci, PhD</b></i></font></blockquote>
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color="#666666"><b>Time:</b></font><font size="+2" color="#666666"><b>
7PM</b></font></blockquote>
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color="#666666"><b>Location: 6-120</b></font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"><i>Bio:</i></font> Dr. Demirci is a Professor
of Medicine in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
Department. He was named one of the world's<b> "Top 35 Innovators
under 35"</b> by Technology Review in 2006, and was awarded
the<b> Coulter Foundation Young Investigator Award in
Bioengineering</b> in 2007. He was the<b> winner of Stanford
University's Entrepreneur's Challenge Competition</b> in 2004, and<b>
winner of the Accenture Global Start-Up Competition in Singapore</b>
in 2004. He is one of the few recipients of the<b> Full Presidential
Fellowship</b> given by the Turkish Ministry of
Education.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">Among his
current research interests, he works on a microchip for rapid CD4
counts in resource limited settings, like</font> Africa.<b> His work,
lying at the intersection of medicine and technology, has the
potential to revolutionize HIV/AIDS diagnostics in the developing
world.</b></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#FF0000">Please join us as he talks about the roles of health
and technology in the fight against global
poverty!</font></blockquote>
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