Admission: Free entry
Meetings of the Inventors Club at the British Library are continuing on ZOOM during 2021. Join us at the club, designed to help you refine, protect and commercialise that new product idea you’ve been tinkering with.
In the Zoom environment there will be no Non-disclosure Agreement, so participants will need to be aware of not disclosing critical aspects of their product ideas (particularly any patentable features).
The meeting will be hosted by Bob Lindsey, an experienced innovator, and Mark Sheehan, Inventor-in-residence at the British Library There is an opportunity for past presenters to update us on their progress, and how the incidence of Covid-19 has affected their progress.
Rhodes Scholar blends bioengineering and sociology
Nkaziewoh Nchinda-Pungong wants to make trailblazing treatments accessible for the underserved
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When Nkaziewoh Nchinda-Pungong was in middle school, he watched a TED talk during which a surgeon 3D-printed a kidney on stage. Spellbound, he decided then and there to become a bioengineer.
A decade later, Nchinda-Pungong is well on his way. A biomedical engineering concentrator at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a 2021 Rhodes Scholar, he is poised to graduate in the spring and fulfill that long-held ambition.
“Biology and chemistry are interesting in themselves, and it is fascinating to learn how the human body works. But with bioengineering, you are actually able to change it,” he said. “You may hear about heart disease and think about it as an abstract problem. Bioengineering turns that into something very specific, like an engineered heart valve, that c