Close up: Collegiate Inventors Winner Ning Mao
2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition graduate student gold winner Ning Mao (ENG’17) won $10,000 for her invention Engineered Probiotics, an engineered safe bacterium that inhibits the progression of a cholera infection. It provides early detection and helps contain spread of the disease. The technology could be adapted to fight other types of bacterial infections. Photo by Jay Premack/USPTO