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Hyd-based students win Hult Prize
Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao has congratulated the NanoHealth team on winning the prestigious Hult Prize, which is the planet\'s largest student competition and is dubbed as the \'Nobel Prize for students\'.
Dubbed as the Nobel Prize for students, it is worth $1 million
Hyderabad: Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao has congratulated the NanoHealth team on winning the prestigious Hult Prize, which is the planet's largest student competition and is dubbed as the 'Nobel Prize for students'.
KTR said that such path-breaking initiatives are the need of the hour to tackle the complex challenges that are plaguing our country.
The NanoHealth team had met KTR before leaving to New York for the finals on Tuesday. The minister had given them a letter of appreciation and also wished them good luck.
The Hyderabad based social startup NanoHealth, which focusses on reducing non-communicable diseases (cancer, CVD, diabetes, hypertension, respiratory diseases) in urban slums, won one million US dollars along with the prize. The finals were held at New York. The team comprised of five students from Indian School of Business - Aditi, Ashish, Manish, Pranav and Ram.
NanoHealth team was selected from 11,000 applications and several qualifying rounds.
As part of the Hult Prize competition, NanoHealth team was one of the six teams worldwide invited to pitch their idea to former US President Bill Clinton, Nobel Laureate Prof. Mohammad Yunus and to global healthcare experts at the Hult Prize final.
