Philip Edgcumbe, a UBC MD/PhD student, has received the 2017 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (CMHF) Award. This award recognizes medical students with an established track record of community leadership, superior communication skills, and a demonstrated interest in advancing knowledge as future leaders and innovators of health care in Canada.
Philip aims to positively impact the health of a billion people by connecting medicine, biomedical research, and entrepreneurship. He spent the summer of 2016 in Silicon Valley at Singularity University applying exponential technologies to medical innovation. In May, Philip started as Bold Innovator (Project Lead) for the Alzheimer’s XPRIZE. As Bold Innovator, Philip is developing a proposal for a multi-million dollar incentive prize to catalyze a major breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research.
Philip’s interests include neuroscience, computational biophysics and augmented reality surgical navigation. In 2013, he was the medical expert for a company focusing on early Alzheimer’s detection and in 2016, co-founded Lume Biotics, a company developing a device for phototherapy treatment of antibiotic infections. Philip is also the recipient of Canada’s top graduate scholarship (Vanier) and UBC’s top leadership award (Nestor Korchinsky).
Each CMHF award recipient receives a cash prize of $5,000 and a travel subsidy to attend the 2018 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in London, Ontario, on April 12, 2018, where they will have the opportunity to meet CMHF Laureates, and interact with health leaders from across the country.