A team led by bioengineering Master of Translational Medicine and PhD students, along with UCSF bioengineering and medical faculty and staff, has received a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant of $2.7 million over three years for a collaborative project aimed at reducing premature births.
The project of UCSF Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences professor Shuvo Roy’s lab, the Smart Diaphragm is a wireless monitoring and warning system for early signs of preterm birth. Co-Principal Investigator is Mozziyar Etemadi, recent BioE Ph.D.
Much of the success of the project is credited to recent Master of Translational Medicine alumni, Philip Chung and Alex Heller, who brought out-of-the-box thinking and an fostered collaboration between engineers and clinicians.