5. An Algorithmic Platform to Optimize the Prescription of Antibiotics - Sophie Kearney

30/06/2019 39 min
5. An Algorithmic Platform to Optimize the Prescription of Antibiotics - Sophie Kearney

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Sophie Kearney at Intel ISEF this year won the third award in the category Microbiology with her project of crucial importance, since more and more people acquire antibiotic resistant infections. She developed an algorithm that determines the efficacy of an antibiotic against pathogenic species. Her technology has utility to make best practices easily available to private physicians and hospital managers since it can regulate and standardize the prescription of antibiotics.
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