Innovation

The intelligent juxtaposition of life and technology

Kathryn Malherbe, a radiographer turned AI expert turned life-saving technology entrepreneur.

16 November 2021

Kathryn Malherbe is the founder of Medsol AI, an intelligent early breast cancer detection solution that leads to a significant reduction in the mortality rates associated with the disease. As one of the winners of the SAB Foundation Social Innovation Award for 2021, Malherbe has received support from local organisations such as the Innovation Hub, to take her platform and innovation further, into new areas and countries.

“I’m a radiographer by trade and worked in clinical practice for 15 years,” she says. “Over the years, I got frustrated at how late women were coming in for diagnosis. Women in rural settings don’t get a lot of information about cancer and there’s cultural stigma. And, on the other side, the big hospitals don’t have the infrastructure for imaging, so the women are referred from their local clinic and only get imaging six months later. I saw it as an injustice to women.”

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