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Students Win Innovation Prize for Improving Surgery on Newborns
Device may allow surgeons in low-income countries to correct rare, often fatal birth defect.
Published May 05, 2021 under Education News
Written by Michael Penn
Caroline Salzman and Arushi Biswas, undergraduate students in Duke’s biomedical engineering program
A team of Duke students that is working to make life-saving surgery possible for infants with a rare birth defect has won the top prize at the 2021 Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge.
The award-winning innovation is part of a larger collaboration between Duke and Makerere University in Uganda to enable surgeons in low-resource settings to operate on newborns with gastroschisis, a birth defect in which babies are born with their intestines outside the body. While the condition can be corrected with surgery, it is often not detected prior to birth in places such as Uganda, where prenatal screenings are infreq