Ingenuita's Strategy

• Develop unanticipated solutions to real-world health problems

• Support the development of fast process to prototype development

• Leverage partner non-profit organizations to field-test prototypes

• Develop partnered manufacturing options

• Support funding and distribution of no-cost options to target communities through existing relations with relief organization distribution networks

Project characteristics

• High impact problem with wide applicability

• Solutions that are inexpensive, sustainable, and simple to manufacture

• Address areas of high unmet need

• Pursue solutions and options with a high degree of technical innovation with an emphasis on engineering perspective

model of target solution

The Origami Microscope

• The Foldscope was developed by a team led by Manu Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at the Stanford School of Medicine.

• The project was funded by several organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

• Prakash wanted to create a microscope that anyone could afford and that would be versatile and sturdy enough to work in field conditions.

• He also wanted to create a device that people felt they had ownership.

parallels to ingenuita’s approach

• Simple, inexpensive solution to address chronic health need.

• Sustainable and scalable approach.

• Amenable to wide distribution and access.

• Sound technical and scientific innovation to bridge the gap between current medical understanding on a given health problem and a practical application.

• Amenable to a collaborative implementation between outside groups and local expertise and leadership.