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With this post, I’m extending a big thank you to Dr. Lilian Celeste Alarcon Segovia, a visiting scientist from Paraguay who did her PhD work in Argentina, for her many contributions to our research. Lilian first spent a year with us starting in 2018, then returned to Paraguay and Argentina, before coming back to our group nearly two years ago. Her interests are in medical technologies that can improve the health of people in lower and middle income countries, specifically women’s health – very well aligned with our work on cost-effective wireless vital signs monitoring devices for maternal, fetal and neonatal patients. We currently have scaled deployments of such devices in Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Pakistan and India, through partnerships with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Steele Foundation for Hope, the Wellcome Leap Foundation and the Save the Children International organization. Our startup company Sibel Health serves as the main vehicle for engaging in these activities -- a recent example is a ~$20M program with the Gates Foundation, described at the link below. Lilian’s latest project focuses on currently unused plant residues from local agriculture, as an ultralow cost base material for ionically conductive electrodes for recording ECG, EEG and EMG. The experiments are now done, and the results are being incorporated into a manuscript to be submitted to a peer reviewed journal sometime in the next two months. Best of luck to Lilian - we look forward to opportunities to continue to collaborate with her in the future! https://lnkd.in/g9P9GMsK
Associate Director of Business Development, LINK - The Center for Advancing Partnerships @ Virginia Tech
2wCongratulations Lilian Celeste Alarcon Segovia. I'll definitely be on the lookout for those papers! Always on the hunt for new ideas and innovations in agricultural waste valorization.