April 17, 2009
Bioengineering Associate Professor Dan Fletcher and his CellScope team were winners of a Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project prize this year, competing against over 100 other teams nationwide. The CellScope project, which arose from an undergrad class project in Fletchers optics course and is now garnering major awards and notoriety, a conventional cell phone is transformed into a compact, high-resolution, handheld microscope with the capability of on-site disease diagnosis and wireless transmission of patient data to clinical centers for remote diagnosis & treatment. The Vodafone project leaders are BioE professor Daniel Fletcher and BioE alumni Dr. Erik Douglas and Dr. Wilbur Lam.
The Wireless Innovation Project is a new initiative from the Vodafone Americas Foundation that identifies and funds unique innovations using wireless related technology offering the best potential to address critical social issues around the world. The three winning innovations share prizes totaling up to $700,000 to support their next phase of advancement and implementation. The CellScope project also recently won the Intel Inspire-Empower Challenge.
Read more at the Wireless Innovation Project website.
Congratulations CellScope team!