Recently, MIT Technology Review website has selected 35 Innovators under 35 for the year of 2015, which includes six types of talents- inventors, entrepreneurs, visionaries, pioneers, etc., covering the area of IT, communications, biomedical and others.
Those 35 selected people are all of high creativity and at the same time, they are symbols of the most important emerging technologies currently. For instance, biomedical inductees are trying to figure out how the brain works and how can we avoid mental illness. Others are also digging the knowledge behind cancer, trying to open up novel therapeutic approach.
Fourteen out of 35 are associated with the biomedical field. Surprisingly, 9 of them are women and 5 are men. Following are introduction about 6 of them and the rest 8 will be introduced in the next post.
Polina Anikeeva (32 years old)
Her laboratory is divided into two directions: First, by using the optical fiber fabrication to create multifunctional neural probe; the other is to explore whether we can connect the nervous system with a wireless or a non-invasive way. Polina Anikeeva said: “We are currently trying to continue to enhance our ability to record and stimulating, which will help us decipher those neural circuits.”
Canan Dagdeviren (30 years old)
Canan Dagdeviren, a material scientist in Turkey, invented an equipment that has the ability to monitor skin changes. And surprisingly, she has found more profound uses of these devices-screening of skin cancer, including the earlier discovery or help patients avoid biopsy.
Travis Deyle (32 years old)
The robots invented by him are capable of wireless charging and one of them can be administered in patients. Google is trying to improve health care through his tech.
Gozde Durmus (30 years old)
Gozde Durmus invented a simple and rapid method to detect the physical properties of the cell: let them float in a magnetic field, measuring how high they will rise.
Gilad Evrony (33 years old)
By study 300 neurons simultaneously, Gilad Evrony, researcher at Harvard Medical School, had a a startling discovery: the brain cells adjacent to each other do not always have the same genetic code. This provides a new foundation for further understanding of age-related cognitive decline, and brain diseases including epilepsy and schizophrenia.
Jun Ge (32 years old)
Jun Ge suggested that adding copper ions to solution that containing certain enzyme can contribute to activation and stability. But he did not expect that such a beautiful structure like flower quickly settle to the bottom of the tubes. And it’s worth mentioning that enzyme in this structure is stable and the enzyme activity increased sevenfold.
To be continued…