The biomedical engineer behind the human microliver and a urine test for cancer detection, Sangeeta Bhatia, has received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for mid-career inventors. Bhatia is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and a professor at MIT, where she directs the Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies.
“Dr. Bhatia is a wonderful example of a woman who has used her brilliance, skill, and creativity to radically improve the detection and treatment of serious global health issues,” said Lemelson Foundation chair Dorothy Lemelson in a press release announcing the award this week (September 9).
Many of Bhatia’s inventions are aimed at simplifying medical diagnostics in developing countries, where cancer is a growing problem, but mammograms and colonoscopies are often inaccessible. The urine tests developed by Bhatia ...
