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  • Varun Kapoor

    Varun Kapoor

    (Nura Health) Varun Kapoor, MD, co-founded Nura Health as a med tech company aimed at improving the diagnosis of endometriosis for millions of women. He is a self-described serial healthcare entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in medical devices and digital health. His desire to solve health inequities for womenMore

  • Envisioning a Safer Eye Exam

    Envisioning a Safer Eye Exam

    This young inventor created a synthetic model eye to help medical students train for optical procedures.

  • Escaping the Ordinary in the Classroom

    Escaping the Ordinary in the Classroom

    This innovative education curriculum uses an escape room model to engage students in important life lessons.

  • Transforming the Game with Invention

    Transforming the Game with Invention

    This former athlete turned entrepreneur and inventor is creating new sports technology to improve player safety.

  • Recharging the Electric Vehicle Industry

    Recharging the Electric Vehicle Industry

    This sustainable startup is building a circular economy for EV batteries from the ground up

  • Achieving that Lightbulb Moment

    Achieving that Lightbulb Moment

    How two high school inventors created a flashlight to help light the way for their community’s first responders

  • From Waste to Wattage

    From Waste to Wattage

    This student inventor uses an innovative renewable energy source to help monitor natural disasters.

  • This High-Schooler is Harnessing Chemistry to Combat Pollution

    This High-Schooler is Harnessing Chemistry to Combat Pollution

    An award-winning student inventor, Tarun Batchu has discovered an eco-friendly way to convert plastics into fuel.

  • How an After-School Invention Program Helped Launch a Career in Big Tech

    How an After-School Invention Program Helped Launch a Career in Big Tech

    Through Oregon MESA, engineer Thien Nguyen discovered his facility for numbers and a supportive community.  Thien Nguyen was born in Vietnam and lived there until fourth grade, when his family immigrated to the United States. At the time Thien spoke no English, yet as he adjusted to his new surroundings in Portland, Oregon, he quickly…

  • This College Inventor Is Making Medicine More Equitable

    This College Inventor Is Making Medicine More Equitable

    University of Iowa sophomore Dasia Taylor has created low-cost, infection-sensing stitches.  Inventor Dasia Taylor is one of those people who seems destined to change the world. At just 14 years old, she was consulting at Harvard on the topic of equity. Now 19, Dasia is in the process of patenting her first medical device —…

  • Meet the Woman Who is Transforming Early Breast Cancer Detection in India

    Meet the Woman Who is Transforming Early Breast Cancer Detection in India

    Through her novel thermal imaging device, Indian entrepreneur Geetha Manjunath is making breast cancer screening more accessible to more women.

  • This Former Rugby Player is Now a Game-Changing Inventor

    This Former Rugby Player is Now a Game-Changing Inventor

    Personal experience drove Jessie Garcia to create her novel head impact indicator. Identify a problem, then work to solve it. That’s the basic formula for invention, and that’s exactly how Jessie Garcia came to create the Tozuda Head Impact Indicator, a tiny tool that attaches to a helmet and signals to its wearer when a…

  • Fighting Global Infant Mortality Through Hypothermia Detection

    Fighting Global Infant Mortality Through Hypothermia Detection

    Biomechanical engineer Ratul Narain’s monitoring devices help detect hypothermia and other illnesses in underweight newborns. Every year, 20 million clinically underweight babies are born worldwide. Of these, eight million are born in India, where many parents don’t have easy access to neonatal care resources. Yet low birth weight — generally defined as less than five…