NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The World Technology Network announced today that HyGreen, Inc. has been selected as a nominee for a 2011 World Technology Award, presented by the World Technology Network, in association with TIME magazine, Fortune magazine, and Science magazine. HyGreen, Inc. is nominated for the 2011 World Technology Award for Health and Medicine.
Winners will be announced on October 26, at the World Technology Awards gala ceremony at the United Nations and TIME & Life Building at the World Technology Summit. These awards honor individuals and corporations from twenty technology-related sectors viewed by their peers as being the most innovative and doing the work of the greatest likely long-term significance.
HyGreen CEO Craig T. Davenport stated:
"We are pleased and honored to have been nominated for the Health and Medicine category of the 2011 World Technology Awards. The human and financial costs resulting from hospital acquired infections (HAI) are staggering: more that 1.7 million people in the US alone are infected by HAIs resulting in over 200 deaths per day. The financial burden to the U.S. healthcare system is more that $40 billion each year. These facts are why we have dedicated ourselves to assisting hospitals in reducing infections and saving lives. Recognition such as this underlines the important role of technology companies like HyGreen that are pioneering solutions to some of the world's most serious challenges. "
Nominees for the 2011 World Technology Awards were identified based on an intensive, global process in which current individual WTN members made their nominations based on who they think is doing the innovative work in their field of the greatest likely long-term significance.
The Advisors for 2011 are:
- Ray Kurzweil, inventor/futurist/author
- Albert Teich, Director, Science and Policy Programs, AAAS
- Jason Pontin, Editor/Publisher, Technology Review
- Lev Grossman, Senior Writer, TIME
- Oliver Morton Energy & Environment Editor, The Economist
"This year we are more eager than ever to pay tribute to the talent and innovation of our honorees," says James P. Clark, Founder and Chairman of the World Technology Network. "Through the peer-nomination and peer-review process, we uncover the best of the best in science and technology. We discover whose work is going to have the greatest likely impact over time. The World Technology Awards give a snapshot of the amazing science and technology revolutions in process.”
CONTACT:
HyGreen, Inc.
Elena Fraser, 877-574-9473
[email protected]
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