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James Collins is the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, as well as a Member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Faculty. He is also a Core Founding Faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University,…

PRESENTED BY Oluwamayowa Salu NOMINATED BY BMW Foundation, Herbert Quandt Tags: Road Construction, Low Cost Housing, Recycling, PlasticWaste

Over the last decade, we have witnessed technological leaps of a magnitude that exceeds our wildest dreams. In the life sciences, the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas gene editing tool has opened up possibilities for research and novel applications that inspire hope but also pose existential questions: which technologies should we…

Mariëlle van Kooten won second place at the Falling Walls Lab Finale 2019. Her app unites scientists and the general public through simple images, enabling the inspection of complex, large-scale data to improve human health.

Anuraag is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of TechNext Inc. During his graduate studies at MIT, Anuraag was a Fellow, at the MIT System Design and Management program. He also held concurrent research assistantships with the MIT Work of the Future Task Force and the MIT International Design Center. $2.2Tn/yr…

Infira is incorporating technology into rice seeds. The growth strategy consists in developing prototypes of different crops by coordinating the strategies of R&D, IP, regulation and market.

In celebration of #IYPT, we created a year-long campaign called #MyFaveElement. It centered around a series of short videos featuring a Berkeley Lab scientist describing their favorite element. One had a personal story of how understanding the structure of carbon triggered a lifelong love of chemistry. We then invited anyone…

Girls, especially in underserved populations and especially in rural areas, are faced with too many challenges when it comes to education and only few consider STEM careers as an option. In fact, due to social pressure, most of them drop school at an early age (around 57% drop out after…

The nominating institution EPFL on the breakthrough: Nora Al Badri’s unique work joining art, AI, and cultural heritage was advanced during her residency at the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) of the CDH, EPFL, and will culminate with an exhibition in Autumn 2020. A pre-trained neural network based on GAN…

The nominating institution CUHK on the breakthrough: The cryosphere, the planet’s frozen parts, has undergone rapid warming in recent decades, posing profound threats to people and the Earth systems which are closely connected to all the UN SDGs. With innovative use of AI, computer vision, deep learning, and remote sensing…