CHICAGO—December 11, 2025— Philip R. Troyk, director of the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), has been elected a 2025 fellow...
Philip R. Troyk, director of the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Robert A. Pritzker Endowed Chair in Engineering, and professor of biomedical engineering at Illinois Tech...
Cholera is an acute gastrointestinal disease that produces rapid dehydration and affects millions of people around the globe, mostly children. This threat has been made even more dire in recent...
Armour College of Engineering has appointed Georgia Papavasiliou, professor of chemical and biological engineering at Illinois Tech, as chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering...
The groundbreaking Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP), an implant that bypasses the retina and optic nerves to connect directly to the brain’s visual cortex, has announced a significant milestone...
Robert A. Pritzker Endowed Chair in Engineering Philip R. Troyk has been awarded the Chicago Council on Science and Technology’s (C2ST) inaugural Innovative Research Award for his work with Sigenics...
Kenneth Tichauer, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, is developing pioneering cancer imaging techniques to allow surgeons to see cancer cells in the...
With a $2.1 million, five-year funding renewal from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), Illinois Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Physics and Biology Jeff...
While there is currently no cure for blindness, a first-of-its-kind artificial vision system has undergone its first successful implantation, bringing with it the potential to restore partial vision...
CHICAGO—February 16, 2022—The Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP), an implant that bypasses the retina and optic nerves to connect directly to the brain’s visual cortex, has been successfully surgically implanted in the ICVP study’s first participant at Rush University Medical Center this week. This surgery is part of a Phase I Feasibility Study of an Intracortical Visual Prosthesis for People With Blindness. The ICVP system was developed by a multi-institution team led by Philip R. Troyk—executive director of the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, professor of biomedical engineering—and represents the culmination of nearly three decades of Illinois Tech research dedicated to ultimately providing artificial sight to those with blindness due to eye disease or trauma.
