Alum Akshaya Anand's Heart Screening Startup Wins $1M Hult Prize

A University of Maryland graduate seeking to transform the way patients gather critical heart and lung health data and her business partner have won $1 million to support their work.

Korion Health co-founders Akshaya Anand (B.S. '19, computer science; B.S. '19, biological sciences; M.P.S. '23, machine learning) and Anna Li, a University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University M.D./Ph.D. student, took first place at the annual Hult Prize challenge in London earlier this month, beating nearly 10,000 teams of young people from around the world with startups dedicated to solving social issues.

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