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Slideshow: Medtech entrepreneurs build Indian health care from ground up
Sufia Tippu
6/7/2012 9:41 AM EDT
Medtech entrepreneurs

Vijay Chandru, CEO of Strand Life Sciences, examines the Ion Torrent 314 chip from Life Technologies, which is used to sequence small genomes like microbes and pathogens.

Expats and Indian doctors, many who trained at prestigious medical schools like Stanford and Harvard, have returned to help improve the healthcare landscape in India.

Vijay Chandru, CEO of Strand Life Sciences, examines the Ion Torrent 314 chip from Life Technologies, which is used to sequence small genomes like microbes and pathogens.

Expats and Indian doctors, many who trained at prestigious medical schools like Stanford and Harvard, have returned to help improve the healthcare landscape in India.
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PJames
6/7/2012 6:21 PM EDT
"Harvard, MIT or Cambridge"
I think this is the second EE Times article I've seen with this list. Do Indian students no longer go to West Coast universities?
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george.leopold
6/7/2012 7:53 PM EDT
Nope, just an accompanying slideshow designed to illustrate the scope of the health care problems of 850 million Indians who live on less than $1 a day. These guys went home to try to serve the underserved and make a few bucks doing it.
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