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Manu Prakash
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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 and Paperfuge. 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. His work focuses on frugal innovation that makes medicine, computing and microscopy accessible to more people across the world.
Career
- 2000Born
- Won MacArthur Fellows Program
Trivia
- •Citizenship: United States
- •Known as: biophysicist, inventor, designer, university teacher
What happened recently
Indian American bioengineer Manu Prakash recognized for microscopic life research
Stanford has made a reusable mask from scuba gear — and it’s shipping it to the front lines of the pandemic
Bioengineer brings paper centrifuge and other cheap diagnostics to the developing world
Manu Prakash, newly minted MacArthur ‘genius,’ builds water computers and origami microscopes