From their home in Bagasara, India, Piyush Desai (M.S. EE ’04, Ph.D. ’09) grew up helping his father fix household items, ranging from motors to gramophones to old radios that operated using valves...
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.
According to the American Diabetes Association, 7.3 million adults in the United States have undiagnosed diabetes. Researchers from Illinois Institute of Technology are part of a research team that is...
Behind the glitz of electric cars is a transportation sustainability problem yet to be solved: large vehicles like long-haul trucks and airplanes are still very challenging to electrify. Illinois...
CHICAGO—February 10, 2022—Illinois Institute of Technology Associate Professor Carrie Hall is using machine learning and computer modelling to ease the transition to electrifying large vehicles by...
Healing a wound is a matter of waging war: as bacteria congregate and multiply on the wound surface, preventing healing and causing infections, doctors can apply an army of antibiotics and...
CHICAGO—January 28, 2021—Illinois Tech associate professor Seok Hoon Hong has genetically engineered E. coli to infiltrate biofilm and target bacteria by secreting bacteriocins, paving the way for...
A new textbook showcases Illinois Institute of Technology’s engineering innovation in the field of multiphase transport. “This book provides advanced tools for shortening the scale-up pathway from...
On September 14, 2021, the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology held a ribbon-cutting ceremony dedicated to the formal opening of the Robert W...
