Student’s innovation has life-saving potential

A YOUNG Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) student who invented a potentially life-saving medical device has won a top European innovation award.

Student’s innovation has life-saving potential
Thu, 04 Mar, 2010 - 00:00
Eoin English

PhD medical engineering student Xiao Fang Zhang, 29, was one of three winners at the European Student Innovation Awards, Innovact, announced in France yesterday.

She is due to receive a hero’s welcome when she returns to Cork Airport this afternoon.

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