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Victoria Hale, Ph.D., of Institute for OneWorld Health Honored as Finalist in Prestigious 2003 Tech Awards CompetitionTop five finalists to share $250,000 award for applying technology to improve quality of life around the worldSan Francisco, CA - September 2, 2003
Today Victoria Hale, Ph.D., CEO and founder of the Institute for OneWorld Health, was named one of 25 laureates for the prestigious 2003 Tech Museum Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity presented by Applied Materials, Inc. The Tech Museum of Innovation, located in San Jose, California announced the laureates. In Silicon Valley where technology is considered a way of life, The Tech Museum Awards were developed to recognize the need to bridge existing technology in emerging countries and emerging technologies in developed countries.
Hale has been selected one of five laureates for the Health Award, which recognizes individuals who enhance the reach and safety of health care to marginalized communities, particularly addressing AIDS, blindness, cancer, and disease.
"I am honored to join this prestigious group and to be singled out for recognition in health," said Hale. "My hope is that my fellow laureates, past and present, and I will learn from each other and find ways to combine our uses of technology to improve more people's lives, especially in the developing world."
Hale invented a unique organizational model - the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company - to capitalize on late-stage biotechnology and pharmaceutical research that holds promise for curing infectious diseases long neglected in the developing world. Her vision encompasses not only new technologies, but also seeks to identify existing drugs that may have therapeutic value for tropical infectious diseases. OneWorld Health separates profitability from a drug's potential to cure disease. Hale has created a way to expand the value and use of pharmaceutical technologies - rescuing potential medicines from obscurity to develop the new medicines urgently needed by millions of people worldwide.
On Oct. 15, at a black tie Awards Gala, Silicon Valley leaders and delegates from the United Nations will join together to honor all 25 laureates and one laureate from each category will be awarded a $50,000 cash honorarium. The five categories are education, equality, environment, economic development, and health.
The awards, presented in partnership with the American Council for the United Nations University and Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology, and Society, are designed to honor individuals, for-profit companies, and public and not-for-profit organizations from around the world who are applying technology to profoundly improve the human condition.
This year, an esteemed panel of judges considered more than 500 nominations, representing 70 countries. The 25 2003 Tech Laureates come from Bangladesh, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nicaragua, Nepal, and the United States.
"Reflecting the mission of The Tech Museum of Innovation, these awards recognize the innovators who use technology to improve people's lives," says Peter Giles, president and chief executive officer of The Tech. "Through these awards, The Tech inspires future scientists, technologists, and social entrepreneurs to harness the incredible power and promise of technology to solve the challenges that confront us at the dawn of the 21st Century."
For more information on the awards and laureates, visit http://techawards.thetech.org
The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the U.S., advances global health by developing new medicines for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect people in the developing world. OneWorld Health accomplishes this through an entrepreneurial business model in which its scientists identify promising drug leads and drive their development from pre-clinical studies and clinical trials through regulatory approval. The Institute for OneWorld Health, headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) U.S. corporation (www.oneworldhealth.org).
About The Tech Museum Awards
The concept for The Tech Museum Awards and its five categories was inspired in part by The State of the Future at the Millennium report of The Millennium Project of the American Council for the United Nations University, which recommends that award recognition is an effective way to accelerate scientific breakthroughs and technological applications to improve the human condition. The Awards were inaugurated in 2001.
Judging for The Tech Museum Awards is independently conducted by Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology and Society, a global network of academic and industry experts dedicated to understanding and influencing how science and technology impact society. They assemble five panels of judges from around the world, recruited from research institutions, industry and the public sector, who judged the nominations on five set criteria.
The Tech Museum Awards Partners
The Tech Museum Awards represent a collaborative effort among educational institutions and business. Among Silicon Valley's leaders supporting The Tech Museum Awards are presenting sponsor, Applied Materials, Inc. and Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology and Society. Category sponsors are the NASDAQ Stock Market, Knight Ridder, Intel, and Accenture.
About the Tech Museum Awards
Located in the heart of downtown San Jose, Silicon Valley, Calif., The Tech, a non-profit organization, engages people of all ages and backgrounds in exploring and experiencing the technologies affecting their lives and aims to inspire the innovator in everyone. For more information, visit www.thetech.org or call (408) 294-TECH. |
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