Ekaterina Stepanova

Learners worldwide are canvasing the internet for help with fundamental courses that students take from junior year in high-school to junior year in college. Subjects like Composition, algebra, and chemistry serve as the foundational gateways on which students thrive or drop out of college. Study Hall aims to provide learners…

Nermeen Youssef’s goal is to induce fat cells to secrete insulin using blue light so that patients with type 1 diabetes will no longer need to inject insulin in the future. She wants to offer the needle-free treatment of type 1 diabetes.

Heiner Camacho is addressing the costliness of the green energy transition by proposing the use of an intellectual property-based device to harvest the mechanical movements of ocean tides and waves. This innovative approach aims to transform this kinetic energy into electricity, specifically to power the hydrolytic process for obtaining “Green…

The world has clear goals on reducing CO2 emissions to limit catastrophic climate change. But society needs chemicals – fuels, fertilizers, precursors for plastics and pharmaceuticals – where do these come from if we must reduce and eventual stop fossil fuel use? With easy availability of low-cost renewable electricity comes…

José L. Flores-Guerrero proposes using Raman spectroscopy directly over the skin of patients as a painless and low-cost method that allows the identification of the substances needed for the diagnosis and prediction of diabetes.

SuperScientists is drawing living ~40 scientists in Africa as the superheroes they are and making trading cards and other materials that teach about science and the people behind it. We want learners to see scientists’ superpowers – catch a single virus and read its genome! – and that they are…

Greta Preatoni is introducing MYNERVA, a groundbreaking neurostimulating medical device designed to address the challenges of diabetic neuropathy, providing a solution that restores the sense of touch and reduces chronic pain. Through strategic electrode placement in a sock and AI algorithms targeting nerves, MYNERVA empowers patients to regain control of…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Joachim von Braun. He talked about his work as an agricultural economist, ways of tackling global hunger and the impact of climate change on global food security. The interview series provided an…

HOW BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS NUTRITIOUS GLUTEN-FREE ALTERNATIVES A gluten-free diet is often the only treatment for sufferers of gluten-related disorders like coeliac disease — a condition where eating gluten causes the immune system to turn against the body. Michelle Colgrave leads the Food and Agricultural Proteomics teams at Edith Cowan…

Serena Parekh is a Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She is the author of three books, including her most recent book, No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis (Oxford 2020), which won the North American…