Fellow Story

Ramanathan's company wins Gates Foundation grant to develop cellphone sensor monitoring for vaccines

Fellow(s): Nithya Ramanathan
Topic(s): Environmental & Public Health, Environmental & Public Health

Nexleaf Analytics announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Nithya Ramanathan, President, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled “ColdTrace: Cellphone Sensor for Cold Chain Monitoring.”

Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) funds individuals worldwide to explore ideas that can break the mold in how we solve persistent global health and development challenges. Dr. Ramanathan’s project is one of over 100 Grand Challenges Explorations Round 8 grants announced today by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Meet the Fellows in this Story

Nithya Ramanathan

2007 Fellow
Nithya envisions a not-too-distant future where collecting environmental data from any source will be cheap, ubiquitous, accurate, and readily available to everyone. She aims to achieve this reality by using her expertise as a computer...