Celldom, inc., a start-up biotechnology company co-founded by Benjamin Yellen, who earned his Ph.D. from Drexel's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2007, was recently awarded with a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health. The $1.5 million award, from the NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, will support Celldom's development of a "next generation, high throughput single cell analysis platform to define heterogeneity within cell populations," according to BusinessWire.
Along with Yellen, Celldom was co-founded by Zachary Forbes, a graduate of the Ph.D. program in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Yellen is now an Associate Professor at Duke University's Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Department, and Dr. Forbes has remained full-time at Celldom as president and CEO. Both alumni were advised by Dr. Gary Friedman, professor in the Drexel ECE Department.