Big congratulations to our friend José Gómez-Márquez (who blogs at Little Devices that Could) for a well deserved award – MIT Tech Review’s Humanitarian of the Year, part of 2009 Young Innovators under 35. Go right now and read the full article (1st para excerpt below):

“José Gómez-Márquez’s lab at MIT seems to be part toy store, part machine shop, and part medical cente­r. Plastic toys are scattered across the bench tops, along with a disassembled drugstore pregnancy test, all manner of syringes, and a slew of fake body parts. Coffee filters have been transformed into paper-based diagnostics; a dime-store helicopter provides the design for a new asthma inhaler; even a toilet plunger has been put to use, rigged with tubes and glue to form a makeshift centrifuge.”

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