Founder · Inventor · Debater
Canoe กันต์ดนย์ ตั้งฤทัยวานิชย์
Grade 12 at Ruamrudee International School, Bangkok.
I’m a Grade 12 student at Ruamrudee International School in Bangkok, and I want to study biomedical engineering. For more than a year I saw doctors about an inflammatory eye disease without getting an answer. It turned out to be vernal keratoconjunctivitis, and once it had a name, the right treatment could start.
That gap between noticing a problem and knowing what it is runs through most of my work. In 2024 I started MedLink Pathways to bring volunteer doctors to highland villages in Mae Chaem, where many families live more than eight hours from a hospital. What we saw there led to EpivaScan, then TeleSync and Pulma: low-cost tools that help people recognise a health problem early.
Debate is the other half of how I think. Arguing for Thailand at the 2025 World Schools Debating Championship taught me to attack my own case before anyone else does, which is also how I try to read medical evidence.
MedLink Pathways, the student-run medical nonprofit I founded in 2024
Founder & President · 2024–now
We bring volunteer doctors and medicine to highland villages in Mae Chaem, Chiang Mai, and teach first aid in local schools.
On clinic days I run the patient queue, which mostly means listening to histories. Almost nothing we see is rare. The families simply never had a doctor close enough to look.
Volunteer doctors, medicine and first aid for highland villages, with Banphaeo Hospital.
Physics, English and bakery classes, and help selling what highland families make.
Hospital shadowing for members, and crew work at international spine-surgery conferences.
Student-built screening devices, including Pulma and EpivaScan.
In the news
Ghanaian TimesBy Benedicta Gyimaah Folley
The Ghanaian Times reported on the project MedLink Pathways funded with MamaCare Ghana. Ten health and community workers in Biakoye District received teaching materials on child nutrition and malaria prevention for the families they serve.
Low-cost screening, from a ten-second breath test to a skin check from one photo
Founder & lead engineer · 2026
A $100 breath test for lung-cancer risk
Low-dose CT catches lung cancer early but rarely reaches the people who need it. Pulma reads the pattern of volatile organic compounds in a ten-second breath, and a model turns that pattern into a risk score. Physicians at Banphaeo, Rajavithi and Ramathibodi hospitals reviewed it.
Founder & lead engineer · 2024–now
Skin screening from one phone photo
Take a photo of a skin concern and see which of 13 common conditions it most resembles. It started on our first MedLink trip, when we saw how common skin conditions were in Mae Chaem. The model is public on Hugging Face, and you can try it on this site.
Founder & lead engineer · 2026
A pocket-sized exam device and guided app that bring heart sounds, lung sounds and vital signs into a video consultation, so remote care can include a real check-up.
Co-founder · 2026
An EEG headband that adapts therapeutic music to a dementia patient’s brainwaves in real time, so the therapy can happen at home. I managed our clinical validation.
Thailand’s national team, and a habit that carries over to medicine
Thailand National Debate Team · 2024–now
I was one of five debaters chosen for Thailand at the 2025 World Schools Debating Championship, and the highest-ranked Thai speaker across international competitions in 2025 and 2026.
In round seven our octofinal spot was on the line, with twenty-five minutes of prep and two teammates split over the motion. I gave each of them four minutes to build the strongest version of the other’s case. What came out was stronger than either, and we won.
Spine-surgery research, conferences, and shadowing in hospitals
Minimally invasive endoscopic spinal fusion has an engineering dilemma: narrow cannula corridors protect nerves but restrict cage size, while wider corridors fit conventional cages but increase dilation trauma. The paper introduces a reversibly expandable cannula that changes from a circle to a square, separating incision size from cage footprint.
Bench testing confirmed the prototype’s structural integrity and reliable expansion and collapse during cage impaction. Clinically, it was evaluated in 36 patients undergoing Endo-LIF with continuous neurophysiological monitoring, tracking new postoperative neurological deficits and changes in Oswestry Disability Index. I designed the instrument in AutoCAD, did the literature review and wrote the manuscript.
Research Award for Outstanding Achievement, 16th ThaiMISST 2025
Clinical shadowing · 2024–26
Neurosurgery at Siriraj Hospital in June 2026, watching endoscopic decompressions guided by C-arm fluoroscopy in the Hybrid Theater. Spine surgery at Tan Tock Seng and Mount Elizabeth hospitals in Singapore.
Speaking, tutoring and organizing at Ruamrudee International School
Speaker · TEDxYouth@RIS 2024
One of eight speakers chosen from more than 50 applicants. The talk argues against treating a long activity list as proof of ambition.
Watch the talkNational Honor Society
I run our semesterly tutoring sessions, which draw more than 60 students, and built a shared study library covering eight subjects.
Student Council
Five school-wide events of 300+ students each, from Knowledge Bowl to band jams and an esports tournament.
Inventions, research and debate. Open one for the certificate or the project.
Three years, from the first clinic trip to the hospital ward
