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The annual MIT IDEAS Global Challenge showcase and awards ceremony recently took place. The grand prize winner of $15,000 went to
Umbulizer, a team developing a low-cost, portable ventilator — made by modifying and simplifying the machinery — for patients in rural areas where medical resources are scarce and unreliable.
“High-end ventilators are not affordable for hospitals in Pakistan. We’ve basically simplified the model” to make them less expensive, team member Moiz Imam, a senior in mechanical engineering, told MIT News.
The Umbulizer team — including Sanchay Gupta, a Harvard Medical School student, and Hamza Khan, a Harvard Business School student — is developing an automated ventilator that keeps only four critical functions, reducing the price to around $2,000.
Learn more about Umbulizer and read the entire article
to discover all the inventions with social impact that won awards at the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge. Congrats to Umbulizer!