Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Rebecca Richards-Kortum is an American biomedical engineer and educator. She is the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University and the director of the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health. Richards-Kortum's research focuses on developing low-cost, high-performance technology for low-resource settings. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Early life and education

Richards-Kortum was born in Nebraska. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Nebraska, earning a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics. She then went on to receive her Master's and Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career

After completing her education, Richards-Kortum began her career as a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2005, she joined Rice University where she currently serves as the Malcolm Gillis University Professor and the director of the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health.

Richards-Kortum's research focuses on developing low-cost, high-performance technology for low-resource settings. She has developed technologies to improve early detection of cancers and infectious diseases. Her work has resulted in the authorship of numerous peer-reviewed papers and the issuance of patents.

Awards and honors

Richards-Kortum has received numerous awards and honors for her work. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. In 2016, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, also known as a "genius grant".

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