A Breakthrough in Cancer Detection: the ADEPT Imager
TRANSCRIPT Kenneth Tichauer, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering: We’re working on a project that we’ve called the ADEPT Imager. Our first application of this imager is to improve the...
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Nayar Prize Winners Give Cancer Screenings Sharper Image
Two Illinois Institute of Technology professors are accelerating the pace in the race to find tumors in the earliest stages, earning them the final award in the first $1 million Nayar Prize package...
Innovation, Collaboration Sparked by Nayar Prize
What began as pleasant conversations during coffee breaks evolved into a collaboration to develop a new cancer screening imager and two faculty-researchers landing the final award of the inaugural $1...
Artificial Pancreas: Developing Devices for the Future of Diabetes Care
TRANSCRIPT Ali Cinar, Professor and Director, Engineering Center for Diabetes Research and Education: The technologies used for managing diabetes have changed, and now the next step is the development...
Fighting Obesity by Growing More Fat Cells
TRANSCRIPT Basically what we’ve done is we’ve made a microfluidic model of lipocytes, or fat. There’s rising rates of obesity in the United States and worldwide, and everything needs an experimental...
Illinois Tech Engineers Advance Obesity Research Through Innovative Microfluidic Chip
Researchers in Armour College of Engineering are pioneering a new way to grow fat cells outside of the body to aid in disease treatment. By extracting cells from a patient and placing them in a...
First Images Produced by Innovative Cancer-Detecting Device
Kenneth Tichauer, an award-winning assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is leading a team that is one step closer to tailoring cancer drug therapy. His research group developed the ADEPT...
Vision Researcher Advances Work with $11.8 Million NIH Grant
Philip Troyk, associate dean of Armour College of Engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and professor at Stuart School of Business, can also rightly be called the “Seeing-Eye Doc.” Since...
Dean Natacha DePaola Inaugurated as Chair of Global Engineering Dean’s Council
Natacha DePaola, Carol and Ed Kaplan Armour College Dean of Engineering, will be inaugurated today as chair of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) at the 2017 GEDC Conference in Toronto. She...
BME Undergraduate Wesley Lo to Present at BMES 2017
Wesley Lo (BME, 4th year), was selected to present his research at BMES 2017, the annual meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. The event will take place between October 11-14, 2017 in Phoenix...