âThe oceans are in trouble, climate is changing rapidly, and the world is in need of solutions,â the new president of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Peter B. de Menocal, told some 500 attendees at a virtual town hall meeting in early October.
âI think we can use this moment to lead ocean science and engineering in the service of a global good; we are the A-team to bring that science to bear,â he told the WHOI community as he hit the ground running after officially beginning his tenure as the 11th president and director of the institution on October 1.
After an in-depth search process, Dr. de Menocal was unanimously chosen from a pool of 50 candidates from diverse backgrounds to be WHOIâs new president and director.
VOTIS Subdermal Imaging Technologies And ii Ventures Announce Plans To Develop Preventative Medicine Devices To Screen For Peripheral Artery Disease In India
Emphasis on impoverished rural sector, comprising 65.53% of the national population
JERUSALEM and MUMBAI, India, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ VOTIS Subdermal Imaging Technologies, Ltd., an Israeli corporation, and ii Ventures Private Limited (iiV), an Indian company, announced today that they have entered into a memorandum of understanding to develop a system to screen the largely rural Indian population for peripheral artery disease (PAD). The devices, which allow for the early detection of the disease before tangible symptoms appear, will utilize the same technology that VOTIS is building into other devices intended for use in the US and Europe.