Mihir Shah's iBreastExam takes breast cancer screening to the masses

Indo-American health-tech innovator Mihir Shah's iBreastExam is an affordable and mobile solution to combat the killer disease

Last Sunday when Mihir Shah, founder of UE LifeSciences, was delivering a talk (lecture) to a packed audience at the 10th edition of TEDxGateway in Mumbai’s NSCI indoor stadium, his health-tech invention iBreastExam had already tested more than 175,000 women across 12 countries. It’s no small an achievement for Shah, a computer engineering graduate from Drexel University, Philadelphia, who decided to take a plunge into the world of entrepreneurship in 2009 after a brief stint with the medical device maker, InfraScan.   

He never had a reason to even think about the prevalence of breast cancer in India until 2007 when