IIT-Hyderabad entrepreneur bags TiE-BIRAC award

Pareddy, Pratyusha and John, Renu (2018) IIT-Hyderabad entrepreneur bags TiE-BIRAC award. Telangana Today, Hyderabad.

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Pratyusha Pareddy, Co-Founder and CEO of NemoCare, received the award from Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon Limited, during the National Conference on “Technological Empowerment of Women” at the Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, on March 8, on the eve of Women’s Day. Pratyusha Pareddy was part of the first batch of graduates from Centre for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE), an interdisciplinary centre at IIT Hyderabad focused on making universal healthcare a reality. Speaking about her achievement, Pratyusha Pareddy said, “Winning the award is very encouraging and a great boost for a young startup like ours. It is moments like these that help us sustain our enthusiasm and work towards our goal with a renewed passion and vigour. Especially receiving it from Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is a dream come true moment for me. She has always been an inspiration.” Speaking about the Startup, Prof Renu John, Co-Head of CfHE and Head, Biomedical Engineering Department, IIT Hyderabad, said: “Nemocare Smart baby monitor aims at combining the elegance of a wearable sensor with deep learning algorithms to monitor distress conditions like apnea in neonates so as to enable timely medical interventions”

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