Mihir Shah
About
Mihir Shah is a computer engineer and co-founder of UE LifeSciences Inc. (UELS), a start-up working to make breast cancer early detection more accessible and affordable for over a billion women that are at risk for it worldwide.
For poorer people in India & many other countries, US-based Mihir Shah has found a way to detect breast cancer without radiation! UELS is developing innovative, cost-effective and clinically effective tools to address the burden of breast cancer in places with high incidence of breast cancer and where western protocols for screening women are unadoptable or unsustainable.
Not long before Mihir was married in 2007, his soon-to-be mother-in-law got diagnosed with breast cancer. He later stumbled upon statistics that stated more than 70,000 Indian women die of breast cancer every year.
This propelled Mihir, a computer engineer by profession, to co-found UE LifeSciences, a company dedicated to innovative, cost-effective technologies to help detect breast cancer at its early stages. Their flagship innovation iBreastExam is a clinically-validated portable device designed to perform painless and radiation-free breast scans, providing results instantly at the point of care.
Awards and Accomplishments
Awards and Accomplishments
iBreastExam has reached over 3,50,000 women across 12 countries and helped early diagnose 150 breast cancer cases.
In countries with a shortage of doctors and radiologists, iBreastExam has everything needed to solve this crisis in the healthcare sector. iBreastExam can screen 100,000 patients at the exact cost of screening 15,000 patients.
He received the ‘Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation Award’ in 2016. In the same year, the Maharashtra government launched a first of its kind breast cancer campaign with iBreastExam to screen over 250,000 women.
Why Mihir Shah ?
Mihir has helped improve healthcare worldwide. He teaches entrepreneurship in biomedical engineering as an adjunct faculty at Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering.
Passionate to address global health disparities with the power of scalable, affordable engineering and innovation, Mihir is a highly respected speaker on the circuit, who is regularly invited at TED Talks as well as a number of high-profile conferences and events.
