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Dhruv Chaudhary
Healthcare Innovators
A WEEK OF IDEAS AND CONNECTIONS
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Dhruv Chaudhary is one of the creators and driving forces behind Thermavault, a breakthrough thermal storage solution designed to solve one of the most overlooked problems in global healthcare, cold-chain failure. As a high school senior with a passion for engineering and impact-driven innovation, Dhruv’s journey began not in a lab, but in the field where he witnessed firsthand the devastating consequences of temperature-sensitive vaccines and medicines going to waste in rural clinics due to unreliable electricity. What started as a frustrating observation quickly transformed into a personal mission: to build a system that didn’t depend on infrastructure to save lives.
The idea of Thermavault emerged from this urgency. Dhruv began prototyping a thermal storage box that could keep life-saving medicines cold without power, using principles of conductive materials, chemical reactions, and insulation. After countless iterations and failures, he developed a stackable copper-core container with a fluid-based cooling jacket powered by a safe, reusable salt mixture. His design could reliably maintain temperatures as low as 3°C using a reusable salt reaction, and down to -10°C with a single-use mix that is perfect for both short-term vaccine storage and deeper cold-chain use cases like organ transport.
Beyond the engineering, Dhruv is working to ensure Thermavault is usable, modular, affordable, and durable enough to survive real-world field conditions. His journey has included field testing in real hospitals to complete reworks of the design within just 6 months of initiation. Thermavault extends far beyond awards or recognition and acts as a gateway to equitable healthcare access, especially in underserved regions.
Today, Dhruv stands not just as a student innovator but as a rising voice in sustainable technology. His work with Thermavault reflects a belief that science should be actionable, empathetic, and built for the people who need it most.
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