[bioundgrd] Fwd: The Intersection of Health and Technology: Dr. Utkan Demirci, Room 6-120, 7PM

[Janice Chang]

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>Subject: [Poverty Week] The Intersection of Health and Technology: 
>Dr. Utkan Demirci, Room 6-120, 7PM
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:15:36 -0400
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>MIT Global Poverty Initiative presents:
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>A Low-Cost HIV/AIDS Diagnostic: The Intersection of Health and Technology
>Dr. Utkan Demirci, PhD
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>Time: 7PM
>Location: 6-120
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>Bio: 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 "Top 35 Innovators under 35" by Technology Review in 
>2006, and was awarded the Coulter Foundation Young Investigator 
>Award in Bioengineering in 2007. He was the winner of Stanford 
>University's Entrepreneur's Challenge Competition in 2004, and 
>winner of the Accenture Global Start-Up Competition in Singapore in 
>2004. He is one of the few recipients of the Full Presidential 
>Fellowship given by the Turkish Ministry of Education.
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>Among his current research interests, he works on a microchip for 
>rapid CD4 counts in resource limited settings, like Africa. His 
>work, lying at the intersection of medicine and technology, has the 
>potential to revolutionize HIV/AIDS diagnostics in the developing 
>world.
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>Please join us as he talks about the roles of health and technology 
>in the fight against global poverty!
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