BWH's Biomedical Research Institute has awarded a
$50,000 Translatable Technologies & Care Grant to four investigators at BWH
for their innovative work. The 2012 recipients and their research projects
are:
Utkan Demirci, PhD, associate
bioengineer: On-Chip Nanoparticle-Based Detection & Quantification of Viral
Load by a Cell Phone
Adam Landman, MD, attending physician:
Improving Electronic Medication Administration Using a Near Field Communication
Enabled Mobile Device
Joseph Italiano, PhD, associate biologist:
Platelet Bioreactor-On-A-Chip
Bohdan Pomahac, MD, director of Plastic
Surgery Transplantation and the BWH Burn Center: Novel Approach to Attenuation
of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Limb Allografts
The criteria for this award was to create a
research proposal addressing a well-defined clinical problem referring to a
range of diagnostic, therapeutic and care delivery issues that foster
translatable convergence (the potential to bring a vast new set of tools and
technologies to biomedical investigation; it can serve as a model for a new level
of trans-disciplinary integration).
These four investigators were chosen among a
pool of 45 competitors, all of whom submitted a letter of intent describing a
wide variety of interesting and exciting projects. The recipients were selected
through multiple rounds of a competitive selection process.
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Utkan Demirci, PhD
| Adam Landman, MD
| Joseph Italiano, PhD
| Bohdan Pomahac, MD
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