Manu Prakash

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Manu Prakash
Bioengineering
InstitutionsStanford University
Doctoral advisorNeil Gershenfeld

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 at Stanford University have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the physics of moving water droplets.[3] His work focuses on frugal innovation that makes medicine, computing and microscopy accessible to more people across the world.[4][5][6]

Early life and education

Manu Prakash was born in

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and an M.S. and PhD in Applied Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[7]

Notable work

Foldscope

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.[8]

Paperfuge

Paperfuge is a hand-powered ultralow-cost paper centrifuge designed by Manu Prakash and members of the Prakash Lab. Inspired by 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.[9][10][11]

Awards

TED Fellow 2009, TED Fellow 2010, TED Senior Fellow 2011[12]

Gates Foundation Global Health “Explorations” Grant 2012[13]

NIH Director's New Innovator Award 2015[14]

MacArthur Fellow 2016[15]

Unilever Colworth Prize 2020[16]

References

  1. ^ "A Microscope to Save the World". The New Yorker. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  2. ^ "The Paperfuge: A 20-Cent Device That Could Transform Health Care". Wired. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  3. ^ https://news.stanford.edu/2015/06/08/computer-water-drops-060815/
  4. ^ MacArthur Foundation. "Manu Prakash". Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  5. ^ John Markoff, "Science Tools anyone can afford", New York Times April 21, 2014 [1] Accessed 21 July 2019.
  6. ^ "TED Fellows". Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  7. ^ Stanford University. "Manu Prakash". Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  8. PMID 24940755
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  9. ^ Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper | Manu Prakash, retrieved 7 February 2020
  10. ISSN 2157-846X
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  11. ^ "A low-cost, hand-powered paper centrifuge". National Institutes of Health (NIH). 30 January 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  12. ^ "Manu Prakash's TED Profile". www.ted.com. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  13. ^ "Bioengineer Prakash wins Gates Foundation global health "Explorations" grant | Bioengineering". bioengineering.stanford.edu. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  14. ^ "NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program - 2015 Award Recipients | NIH Common Fund". commonfund.nih.gov. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  15. ^ "Manu Prakash - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  16. ^ Society, Microbiology. "News". microbiologysociety.org. Retrieved 10 February 2020.

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