Nicholas Durr, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to receive NIH’s Trailblazer Award.
The two-year, $623,000 award, administered through the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, supports innovative early-career researchers tackling high-risk, potentially high-impact projects. The ultimate goal is to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open new avenues of research, integrating engineering and the physical sciences with the life and/or biomedical sciences.
Tens of millions of colonoscopy procedures are performed each year, but they offer patients only moderate protection in preventing deaths from colorectal cancers.
Using the NIH Trailblazer Award grant, Durr’s team will develop new wide-field endoscopy technologies that use structured light to enable sensitive and quantitative measurements of the colon shape from a conventional video.
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