Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American bioengineer
Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1964
Place of Birth: Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
Profession: academic
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
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About Rebecca Richards-Kortum
- Rebecca Richards-Kortum (born April 14, 1964) 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.She is the Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, and serves as the advisor to the Provost on health-related research.
- 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.She is the author of the textbook Biomedical Engineering for Global Health (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and written 315 research papers and 13 book chapters, as well as developing 40 patents.
- Richards-Kortum grew up in Grand Island, Nebraska.
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