April 2005
Bioengineering Ph.D. students Nate Beyor, Erik Douglas and Stephanie Yeung, along with Julien Decot of the Haas School of Business, have teamed up to work on a solution to shipping industry proliferation of marine invasive species.Species of marine life are often transported from port to port around the world in the ballast water of shipping vessels, wreaking havoc on local ecosystems. The team has hit upon the idea of using the lab-on-a-chip technology that they work on for medical applications to test for invasives in ballast water. They are targeting China as their first market.
The team won an $18,000 fellowship through the Management of Technology International Research Fellowship Program to conduct a feasibility study of their solution. They will be visiting China this summer to begin discussing the technology.
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