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Residents of a homeless shelter in Rochester are continuing to receive therapy during the coronavirus pandemic from a team of therapists in a clinical internship program at RIT. The doctoral training program began as an exercise in using telepsychology to deliver care to a marginalized and underserved population. When New York shut down in March to stem the spreading virus, the therapists were already prepared to apply the telehealth protocols in the crisis.

Vinay Abhyankar and this team will develop the commercial-ready µSiM platform with three nanoporous membrane offerings that provide glass-like imaging properties and integrate a removable fluidic module to apply physiological fluid shear stresses to form a viable vascular barrier. These tissue barriers are an important component of a growing market for 3D cell culture. 

RIT Professor James Perkins ’92 MFA (medical illustration) has won the trifecta of RIT honors—this year adding an Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching and Distinguished Professor to his 2015-2016 Trustees Scholarship Award.  

Linwei Wang, associate professor in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, honored with The Trustees Scholarship Award. Stephen Jacobs, a professor in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences,  honored with the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring. The 2019-2020 Teaching and Scholarship awards ceremony will take place in Fall 2020 semester.  

Ke Du and Blanca Lapizco-Encinas, both faculty-researchers in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, worked with an international team to collaborate on the design of a next-generation miniature lab device that uses magnetic nano-beads to isolate minute bacterial particles that cause diseases. This new technology improves how clinicians isolate drug-resistant strains of bacterial infections and difficult-to-detect micro-particles such as those making up Ebola and coronaviruses.

A heart monitoring solution developed in a Rochester Institute of Technology engineering lab is helping to provide individuals with early signs of COVID-19 symptoms during the 2020 crisis.

Yahoo! Finance features The Heart Seat, a smart toilet seat developed by Nicholas Conn '11, '13 MS (electrical engineering), research scientist and founder and CEO of Heart Health Intelligence.

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of David Borkholder, Ph.D., Bausch and Lomb Professor, Microsystems Engineering, to its College of Fellows.

Ke Du, an assistant professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering and his research team, recently published the article Rapid Escherichia coli Trapping and Retrieval from Bodily Fluids via a Three-Dimensional Bead-Stacked Nanodevice in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.  The cover art for this article was designed by PHT180 medical illustrator Wenrong He, ‘20 MFA Medical Illustration.

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Associate professor Linwei Wang is leading an international group of researchers and clinicians developing computational systems for creating individualized 3D imaging of a patient’s heart. With these 3D heart models, clinicians now have a noninvasive way to study their patients.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 31: A multidisciplinary contingent from RIT is creating design solutions to improve the quality of medical care and education in Central America. Mary Golden, interior design program chair and director of RIT Hope for Honduras, speaks with Christian Perry, a healthcare designer and co-founder of Little Angels of Honduras, about important initiatives to help reduce infant mortality in that region.

Ehsan Rashedi, assistant professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, received 17K in private and New York State Department of Economic Development (NYSDED) funds in collaboration with the University of Rochester to evaluate the ergonomic design of medical equipment.