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Winner: Alice A. Chen, Graduate student at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. A self described artist, Chen never considered herself an engineer or believed she would invent anything. She was recognized for her groundbreaking work on creating a humanized mouse with tissue engineered human liver. Her invention has given scientists a tool in better understanding the human liver's response to drugs and infectious disease.
<u>Other notable winners</u>
Carl Dietrich, founder of Terrafugia & inventor of the street-legal airplane Transition.
Nate Ball, founder of Atlas Devices & inventor of ATLAS Powered Rope for emergency responders and soldiers and host of PBS Kids show, Design Squad Nation.
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