UAccel alum Marion wins coveted global health innovation prize
July 7, 2021
Eastern Kentucky University associate professor and Launch Blue UAccel alum Dr. Jason Marion has received a global health innovation prize for his water purification research to help low-resource countries like Kenya and rural counties in Kentucky.
Marion won the 2021 Global Health and Innovation Conference (GHIC) Innovation Prize in May. He won the $2,000 prize for his development of “ColiGlow: A Novel Low-Cost Kit for Quantifying E. coli from Water in Low-Resource Environments.” Marion teaches and conducts research in Environmental Health Science at Eastern Kentucky University, and is the founder and CEO of Eastern Scientific.