Rishab Jain: AI that tracks the pancreas in MRI during radiotherapy; later ICOR gene-optimisation tool
AI that tracks the pancreas in MRI during radiotherapy; later ICOR gene-optimisation tool.
The pancreas shifts between and during scans, which makes it hard to hit a tumour with radiation without hitting healthy tissue. Jain, from an Indian-American family in Oregon, trained a deep-learning model to find the organ in MRI images in real time. He won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2018 and, in 2022, the US$50,000 Regeneron ISEF Young Scientist Award for a separate tool that optimises gene sequences for cheaper drug manufacturing; that second technology was reported to have been licensed to a biotech company.
IP note
ICOR reported licensed to a biotech company; no patent number located.
Recognition
3M Young Scientist 2018; Regeneron ISEF Young Scientist Award 2022.
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- Trisha Prabhu — ReThink
- Nick D'Aloisio — Summly
- Nilay Kulkarni — Ashioto
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