Rice 360º wins key funding for low-cost syringe pump One of the most promising technologies from Rice University’s global health initiative — a low-cost, rugged syringe pump called AutoSyP — has won grant funding to make the transition from a promising prototype to a proven life-saving medical device. Former Rice 360° Global Futures Fellow Alexa Juarez ’14 worked with physicians and nurses at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, in 2013 on a pilot clinical st