Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Nationality American
Fields Bioengineer
Institutions Rice University
Notable awards National Academy of Engineering,
National Academy of Sciences,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
MacArthur Fellow

Rebecca Richards-Kortum is an American bioengineer and the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University. She is a professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and she is the Director of Rice 360°: Institute for Global Health, and the Founder of Beyond Traditional Borders.[1]

Richards-Kortum specializes in creating new technologies to provide health care to vulnerable populations, including methods for diagnosis of cancers, methods for treating jaundice in newborns, and a bubble continuous positive airway pressure machine for premature infants unable to breathe on their own.[2]

Richards-Kortum grew up in Grand Island, Nebraska.[3]

Honors and awards

In recognition of her work, Richards-Kortum received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016.[4] She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 and the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. In 2016 she received the Pierre Galletti Award, the highest honor from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), for her contributions to global health care and bioengineering technology.

In her Pierre Galletti address to the AIMBE, she noted that the biggest career-transition gender disparity occurs at the graduate student/postdoc-to-assistant professor step, and she challenged the leaders in bioengineering to encourage women to pursue academic positions, especially at the "20th mile" of the academic "marathon."[5]

She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2017.[6]

References

  1. ↑ . Rice University http://bioengineering.rice.edu/faculty/rebecca_richards-kortum.aspx. Retrieved 2016-09-25. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ "MacArthur Fellows: Meet the Class of 2016: Rebecca Richards-Kortum". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
  3. ↑ Undergrad work put alumna on 'genius' award path | Nebraska Today | University of Nebraska–Lincoln Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  4. ↑ Beaubien, Jason (2016-09-22). "'Genius Grant' Winner Is A Genius At Inspiring Students" (Morning Edition). NPR. NPR. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
  5. ↑ Gray, Jeffrey (2016-04-04). "BME and ChE show largest gap between %women PhD grads and faculty.". Twitter. Twitter. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
  6. ↑ "American Philosophical Society: Newly Elected - April 2017".
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