What award is Dean Kamen set to receive?”
Dean Kamen’s insatiable drive to solve big problems has fueled inventions like a wearable insulin pump for diabetics; the Segway personal transportation device; a strap-on, robotic arm for military amputees; and a low-cost water filter for underdeveloped countries. Yet the self-made, 58-year-old whirlwind of innovation believes his best works may come in the future. “I get up every morning hoping that’s the case,” said Kamen. That attitude on top of the 440-plus U.S. and foreign patents that are part of Kamen’s body of work have won the Manchester, N.H. entrepreneur this year’s Julio Palmaz Award for Innovation in Healthcare and the Biosciences from BioMed SA. That’s a nonprofit corporation that promotes health care and the biosciences in San Antonio. “BioMed SA is proud to honor an innovator who has spent his whole life helping others overcome the challenges of their lives,” said former Mayor and BioMed Chairman Henry Cisneros. The organization has bestowed the award for four years on
Known for the Segway, Kamen also invented the first wearable insulin pump and AutoSyringe, portable dialysis machine and low-cost water filter for underdeveloped countries SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Internationally renowned inventor, entrepreneur and thought leader, Dean Kamen of Manchester, NH, can add another prestigious award to his resume when he accepts BioMed SA’s Julio Palmaz Award for Innovation in Healthcare and the Biosciences. BioMed SA, is a non-profit corporation founded in 2005 to help grow and promote San Antonio’s thriving healthcare and bioscience sector. The award honors individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to advance the healthcare and bioscience fields. Kamen, founder of DEKA Research & Development Corp. and of the non-profit organization FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), will accept the award at BioMed SA’s annual Palmaz Award dinner to be held in San Antonio on September 17, 2009. Dubbed the “Dean
Internationally renowned inventor, entrepreneur and thought leader, Dean Kamen of Manchester, NH, can add another prestigious award to his resume when he accepts BioMed SA`s Julio Palmaz Award for Innovation in Healthcare and the Biosciences. BioMed SA, is a non-profit corporation founded in 2005 to help grow and promote San Antonio`s thriving healthcare and bioscience sector. The award honors individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to advance the healthcare and bioscience fields. Kamen, founder of DEKA Research & Development Corp. and of the non-profit organization FIRST(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), will accept the award at BioMed SA`s annual Palmaz Award dinner to be held in San Antonio on September 17, 2009.
