About eight years ago, Ryan Shelton was doing postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, focusing on medical optics and imaging. He was also the father of Jack, a one-year-old who suffered from constant, painful ear infections that, eventually, led to permanent partial hearing loss. At the same time, a colleague, Dr. Stephen […]
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This Incubator Has Nurtured Some Of The World’s Most Important Startups. Now, It’s Raising $50M More.
Lorenzo Lewis knows first-hand the hardships endured by young men of color, and the toll on mental health those traumas take. Born in jail, Lewis, 32, struggled with a host of mental health problems throughout his childhood and early adolescence. But when, at 17, he was arrested for gun possession and sentenced to a year […]
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How A Turkish Startup Focused On Autism Education Reached A Global Market
Hasan Zafer Elcik’s little brother Alper was diagnosed with severe autism at the age of two and a half and, for many years after, was unable to talk, read or write. Then, about seven years ago at their home in an Ankara, Turkey, suburb, Elcik let his little bro play with his new smartphone. The […]
