This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

Photo: Rebecca Richards-Kortum. Photo credit: Eric Kayne via the MacArthur Foundation. Article by Joanna Goodrich. IEEE Spectrum – January 8, 2024.

Rebecca Richards-Kortum has spent most of her 30-year career developing technology to help improve medical care in underserved communities worldwide. Among her achievements: She invented an inexpensive, battery-operated optical imaging system that can detect premalignant tissues—no biopsy required—to help prevent oral and cervical cancer. Richards-Kortum is a professor of […]

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