Dr. Ashifi Gogo

The World Health Organization estimates that 30% of all drugs sold in developing nations are counterfeits.  And, with increasing mail order pharmacy business in the developed world, fakes have a good chance of penetrating the market.  To address this problem, Ashifi Gogo, Ph.D. post doc fellow at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth has started a company that makes a mobile products authentication app which verifies whether or not a drug is genuine.  In the US, the FDA is responsible for policing 24 million shipments of imported drugs as well as the active ingredients that go into drug manufacture.   MORE

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