Heman Bekele
Annandale, United States
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Coralie Custos Quatreville: “Coming up with the beginnings of a simple, accessible solution to prevent a global problem. What a gem!”
Heman Bekele is a young Ethiopian-American inventor who developed a low-cost bar of soap designed to deliver skin cancer treating compounds, an idea rooted in memories of laborers working long hours under the sun in Ethiopia without protection. He built the prototype as a middle schooler, won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2023, and was named TIME's Kid of the Year in 2024. He has continued the research in university laboratories and created Heman's Lab, a nonprofit aimed at making dermatol
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