The NSF has awarded $10 million to a Rice University-led team that hopes to create wearable and point-of-care microscopes to non-invasively aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of nearly 100 health conditions that today require a biopsy or blood test.
Lihong Wang, who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering while working with two Nobel Laureates at Rice, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which cited him for his “inventions in photoacoustic microscopy enabling functional, metabolic, and molecular imaging in vivo.”Â
http://www.newtcenter.org/Pedro J. J. Alvarez, the George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Rice University and director of the National Science Foundation’s Energy Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment at Rice, has been elected to the... Read more
