MIT Technology Review “Innovators under 35” acknowledged already two innovators hailed from Ukraine:
- Dr. Anastasia Volkova (FluroSat, now Regrow, Australia) developed a platform to use remote sensing and other techniques to monitor crop health and help farmers focus their efforts where they’re most needed. The proposed monitoring and support aims to reduce the overuse of nitrogen, pesticides, and herbicides and optimize irrigation. (Energy & Sustainability. Year honored: 2020). TEDxGateway talk “Investing in Climate Change Means Investing in our Soil” and “The Drones that Grow Our Food” by Anastasia Volkova, TEDxYouth@Sydney
- Dr. Olga Dudchenko (Baylor College of Medicine & Rice University, USA) created a better way to sequence a genome. Dudchenko uses Hi-C, a technique originally developed to study how chromosomes fold, to show which bits of DNA lie physically close to one another. Coupled with Dudchenko’s methods and algorithms, this makes assembling genomes easy. (Biotechnology & Medicine. Year honored: 2019)