Assistant Professors Umer Hassan (PI) and Mehdi Javanmard have received an exploratory Busch Biomedical Grant from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Rutgers-New Brunswick. The grant of $40,000 will support Umer and Mehdi's research on developing a point of care sensor for sepsis stratification. The project titled "Point-of-Care Biochip to Quantify αMβ2, and CD64 Co-expression for Sepsis Stratification" carried out in collaboration with Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will develop a point-of-care microfluidic biochip to quantify WBCs (and differentials), their surface antigen’s expression levels (nCD64) and co-expression of surface-receptors (CD11b/CD18) on neutrophils from whole blood in less than 30 min.
Congratulations Umer and Mehdi!