2016

December
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- This Handheld Breast Scan Is Revolutionizing How Indians Detect Cancer
  
  December 16, 2016
  
  For 18-year-old Farheen Jahan, life took an ugly turn when she discovered a stiff growth in her breast. However, initial blood reports failed to detect anything serious. Later, in a health camp clinic set up in her locality in rural India she got herself scanned again with something called iBreastExam – a diagnostic tool designed to perform painless and radiation free breast scans, providing results instantly at the point of care. The scan detected abnormal tissue in her breast.
  
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November
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- NIH Funds Clinical Trial to Test Device That Heals Wounds With Ultrasound
  
  November 29, 2016
  Drexel researchers have received a $3 million NIH grant to test a new treatment for the millions of patients who suffer from slow-healing, chronic wounds.
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September
Highlighted Articles
- PolyCore Therapeutics LLC has been selected for the University Startups Demo Day
  
  September 20, 2016
  
  PolyCore Therapeutics LLC, has been selected as one of the companies presenting at the University Startups Demo Day on September 20 in Washington, DC.
  
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June
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- Drexel Graduates its First Class of Coulter Fellows
  
  June 24, 2016
  During the first year of Drexel’s Coulter Fellows Program in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, graduate students across the University worked together on medical and engineering research.
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- Jim Harris and Sandhya Kortagere Featured in University City Science Center Year in Review
  
  June 23, 2016
  
  When PolyCore Therapeutics, a Drexel spinout, began developing a breakthrough drug to manage the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, CEO Jim Harris and Sandhya Kortagere (pictured) quickly realized that they could hasten their journey to funding via the Science Center’s newest commercialization program, Phase 1 Ventures.
  
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February
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- Video Game Therapy — Drexel Professors Design Games For Cerebral Palsy Patients
  
  February 22, 2016
  While video games have often been saddled with the reputation of promoting a sedentary lifestyle, a group of Drexel University professors see the digital diversions as a way of helping patients with cerebral palsy to keep on moving. The team, with expertise ranging from game design to movement science, physical therapy and biomedical engineering, recently formed a company called enAble Games, with the goal of making web-based active video games that can be used as part of therapy or rehabilitation exercise sessions.
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