Damel Mektepbayeva, a junior researcher at Kazakhstan's Nazarbayev University Research and Innovation System, has won a Singularity University GIC and developed a device for rapid blood testing for sexually transmitted diseases, Tengrinews reports.
This was the first time that the Singularity University, NASA Research Park held its Global Impact Competition for Kazakhstan, and it specifically targeting outstanding teaching assistants and young researchers employed in schools and research centers of the Nazarbayev University.
The participants had to submit an idea that used technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges such as poverty, energy, education, global health, safety and environment.
Damel studied Biotechnology Chemistry in Indiana University and then got her Master's in Biotechnology from Ecole Normale Supérieure in France. So she chose the global health challenge and submitted a project idea to solve cancer. The Kazakh researcher's idea was so good that it won her a free spot in the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program 2014 that otherwise costs $30,000.
Damel's June - August studies at Cingularity University began with 6 weeks of training that included seminars, hands-on workshops, discussions and tours to leading technology companies where she could get first hand experience in various kinds of technologies topping the Silicon Valley.
After that Damel Mektepbayeva from Kazakhstan teamed up with three other outstanding researchers - an MIT alumnus specialising in robotics and innovations Dr. Ernesto Rodriguez Leal from Mexico, a software engineer from Poland Pawel Jarmolkowicz and startups and IT expert from Ukraine Irina Rymshina
This was the first time that the Singularity University, NASA Research Park held its Global Impact Competition for Kazakhstan, and it specifically targeting outstanding teaching assistants and young researchers employed in schools and research centers of the Nazarbayev University.
The participants had to submit an idea that used technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges such as poverty, energy, education, global health, safety and environment.
Damel studied Biotechnology Chemistry in Indiana University and then got her Master's in Biotechnology from Ecole Normale Supérieure in France. So she chose the global health challenge and submitted a project idea to solve cancer. The Kazakh researcher's idea was so good that it won her a free spot in the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program 2014 that otherwise costs $30,000.
Damel's June - August studies at Cingularity University began with 6 weeks of training that included seminars, hands-on workshops, discussions and tours to leading technology companies where she could get first hand experience in various kinds of technologies topping the Silicon Valley.
After that Damel Mektepbayeva from Kazakhstan teamed up with three other outstanding researchers - an MIT alumnus specialising in robotics and innovations Dr. Ernesto Rodriguez Leal from Mexico, a software engineer from Poland Pawel Jarmolkowicz and startups and IT expert from Ukraine Irina Rymshina
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