A 4-year, $2.7 million NIH R01 grant entitled, “Portable Automated Device for Rapid Venous Blood Draws and Point of Care Diagnostic Analysis” has been awarded to Professor Martin Yarmush (Left) and colleagues (below) through the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Together with investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Rutgers bioengineers will develop an automated robotic venous blood drawing system combined with microfluidics-based diagnostic assay device for comprehensive and rapid blood testing. The Rutgers team includes Assistant Research Professor Tim Maguire and BME graduate students Alvin Chen and Max Balter.
