Jarrel Seah and Jennifer Tang beat more than 33,000 students worldwide to take out the top prize in the Microsoft Imagine Cup for their selfie app for anaemia.
Jarrel and Jennifer's Eyenaemia app is a simple, non-invasive and easily accessible screening tool for anaemia.
Eyenaemia analyses the conjunctiva and calculates the risk of anaemia, putting years of medical training into the hands of untrained users.
Jarrel and Jennifer took home $50,000 and also won the incredible opportunity to sit down with Mr Gates for a private mentoring session.
Jarrel said meeting Mr Gates was “probably the best experience I’ve had in my entire life so far”.
Mr Gates talked about the meeting on his blog, and said: “It’s exciting to see bright young people like Jennifer and Jarrel applying their talents to problems that disproportionately affect the poor. As I told them, I could see a future version of Eyenaemia being used in developing countries, especially with pregnant women, since anemia contributes to nearly 20 percent of deaths during pregnancy.”
Check out a video on the meeting.
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