BME,Student Group News

April 18, 2006

Duke Student Entrepreneurs To Compete for Start Up Funds

DURHAM, N.C. –- Physicians who have struggled for years to monitor and treat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa could soon have a low-cost solution thanks to a team of students at Duke University. These students, and others with unique ideas to improve health care technology in developing countries, are vying for the top prize in a Duke University business plan competition Saturday. The student business named Global ImmunoDiagnostics has developed what its organizers believe is a ...

September 27, 2005

Duke Engineering Program Improves Hospital Conditions in Developing Countries

Durham, N.C. -- Duke engineering student Le (Lucy) He was stunned to discover that the lights in the operating room of her adopted Rosales, El Salvador, hospital flickered off and on during the day. Similarly, upon her first visit to the hospital, she saw patients in beds everywhere but few working monitors hooked up to them. Lucy He is one of five Duke University students who have returned to campus from a challenging and rewarding summer ...