Manu Prakash is an Indian born scientist who is a Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He earned a BTech in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and a PhD in applied physics from MIT.
Manu, who is 38 years old, was born in Mawana, a rural sugar-producing town in Uttar Pradesh. He runs the Prakash Lab at Stanford University, a playground for frenetic inventor prodigies across various disciplines, all engaged in “curiosity-driven science”. They often work, Prakash says, without a set agenda, “working on intuition…we don’t know whether something we are working on will ever be useful, but we think there is something there”.
Manu continues to work towards a future where the tools of an entire diagnostic chain—drawing a drop of blood, sealing it, running it through a centrifuge, putting it on a slide without fear of infections and observing it through a microscope—will cost less than a McDonald’s burger, and fit into a pocket.
The goal is to give millions of people access to the durable, portable, and affordable scientific device. So if you want to get your hands on a paper microscope, your best bet is to become a backer. And you’ll also have the satisfaction of knowing that you’re helping send microscopes to aspiring scientists all over the world.
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