Goa, 1st February 2019: Aegis Graham Bell Award 2018 announced Niramai as winner in “Innovation in Mobile App for Consumer” category for their innovation “Mythri”. Niramai has been applauded as winner at the 9th edition of Aegis Graham Bell Award 2018 hosted by Government of Goa at Entertainment Society of Goa, Panaji. Last year Niramai was selected as the winner in Data Science category, making them the only start-up to be selected among other large and king sized companies. Niramai is winner of Aegis Graham Bell Awards since two consecutive years.
Dr Geetha Manjunath, CEO & CTO, Niramai, said, “It is indeed a moment of pride and pleasure for us to be recognized with Aegis Graham Bell Award for the second year in a row. This is one of the few competition with a common award across companies of all sizes – startups, small, medium and large enterprises. The award is therefore, a wonderful testimony of the technical excellence of Niramai team. Last year, we won the award in Data Science category for our novel AI based breast cancer detection algorithms. This year’s winner is our second product, Mythri, a mobile screening app particularly suited for GPs and gynecologists for early detection of breast abnormalities. The key motivation for us is to constantly innovate towards our vision of making breast health accessible and affordable for all.”
“Niramai is contributing greatly to the society by its latest innovation “Mythri” a mobile screening app for early detection of breast abnormalities and that too at an easily affordable cost. It is a much needed initiative in our Indian rural as well as urban society. I congratulate Niramai for the win” – Dr Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Jury, Aegis Graham Bell Awards; Dean, Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security & Telecom.
Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) has been promoting innovations and entrepreneurship in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) domain. AGBA has been rewarding those who made outstanding contribution in these fields since 8 years with a vision to foster and stimulate innovators, for India to become a nucleus of innovations.
With Mythri, Niramai is taking the power of Thermalytix™ from portable to pocketable devices. It brings the ability to pre-screen women for breast cancer to Smartphones with the help of a simple thermal sensor attachment. Their innovative mobile app can enable gynecologists to go beyond simple hand examination and screen their patients for any breast abnormality based on the real-time analysis of thermal signature.
About Niramai:
NIRAMAI is a health-tech startup that is using data science to help diagnose critical diseases. They have developed a non-contact privacy-aware Breast Cancer Screening solution to detect early stage malignancy in women of all age groups. Niramai’s cloud-hosted solution is based on a novel technology called Thermalytix™, which uses their patented machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms over high resolution thermal images. For more information please visit: http://www.niramai.com
About Aegis Graham Bell Awards:
Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovations in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The award is powered by mUni Campus. It is organised with the support of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE) India, a public-private partnership initiative of DoT with 08 Centres at premier academic institutes (06 IITs, IISc and IIMA) of the country, each supported by a Telecom Service Provider and Convergence India and KPMG as knowledge partner. For more information, please visit: www.bellaward.com
For more information, please contact:
Shweta Chavan | Corporate Communication | Aegis Graham Bell Awards | 8433969263 | shweta@bellaward.com
