Dean Kamen, inventor, entrepreneur, and science advocate, will receive a Lifetime Achievement award at the 2014 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) on June 11 in New York, New York. Kamen is founder of DEKA Research & Development, Manchester, New Hampshire, which developed the multiarticulating “Luke Skywalker” arm for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Revolutionizing Prosthetics program.
