Biomedical Engineering for Global Health: Applications in World Health Care (Cambridge Texts in Biomedical Engineering) - Hardcover

Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521877970 ISBN 13: 9780521877978

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Can technology solve health problems across the world? Cutting-edge biomedical engineering meets human health crises for non-science majors and biomedical engineers.

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Rebecca Richards-Kortum is the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University, Houston and the Director of the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health. Her research has been instrumental in improving early detection of cancers and other diseases, especially in low-resources settings. She is currently working with colleagues and undergraduate students to develop and deploy a suite of technologies necessary to reduce neonatal death in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Richards-Kortum has 40 patents, and her teaching programs, research and collaborations are supported by grants from NCI, NIH and NSF, the Gates Foundation, and HHMI. She is a member of the NAS, NEA and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521877970
• ISBN 13: 9780521877978
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 418
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italien