User Interface for Electronic Control of a Biospired Soft Robot
Mentors Project Description The project will involve developing a graphical user interface for controlling electro-permanent magnets (EPMs)- based valves. To select the fluid lines that will activate the channel of our soft actuators, we configure electro-permanent magnets as electronically activated pinch valves. These are used to control an octopus-inspired soft robot for underwater exploration. The […]
Blinking Heart Lights
Mentors Project Description Engineered cardiac tissues (ECT) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells will spontaneously contract with a “heartbeat” caused by successive action potentials. The dynamics of that contractility can be used to evaluate tissue phenotype and to assess tissue health and maturation. One common way to evaluate contractility dynamics is to monitor deflection […]
Electrochemical Biosensing of Neurofilaments
Mentors Project Description Our research lab, in Boston University Photonics Center’s Business Innovation Center, is focused on the development of new diagnostic tests to support personalized therapeutic strategies for patients suffering from neurological conditions. Given the increasingly decentralized nature of healthcare and clinical trials, in part accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need […]
Designing Activators and Monomers for 3D Printed Chemically Coalescing Liquid Metal Polymer Composites
Mentors Project Description Room temperature liquid metals are ideal soft conductors. By embedding them into elastomeric matrices they can maintain high electrical conductivity large cyclic without affecting the mechanical properties of the host matrix. Their low viscosity and high surface tension allow them enable fast responses to mechanical deformations. They also exhibit negligible vapor pressure, […]
Magnetic Force-Assisted Biosensor
Mentors Project Description Our research lab, in Boston University Photonics Center’s Business Innovation Center, is focused on the development of new diagnostic tests to support personalized therapeutic strategies for patients suffering from neurological conditions. Given the increasingly decentralized nature of healthcare and clinical trials, in part accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need […]
Automated Hybrid Manufacturing of Electrical Objects
Mentors Project Description The overall goal of this project is to implement hybrid manufacturing capabilities into an automated assembly line at BU and to develop a lab manual that enables students to utilize this new capability. The Automated Design and Manufacturing Laboratory (ADML) is an automated assembly line located in BU’s Engineering Product Innovation Center […]
Lab-On-Chip for Molecular Diagnostic
Mentors A Project Description The Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) team in the Business Innovation Center (BIC) at the Photonics Center provides a case study in how ADI executes intrapreneurship with their Analog Garage model. Now known as NTDHC, the team is focused on developing the next generation of Biosensor platform-on-chip for diagnostics and therapeutics. To […]
Multi-Electrode Chip Prototype for Electrochemical Biosensing
Mentors Project Description StataDX is a medical diagnostics company focused on providing patient-centric technologies to enable earlier diagnosis of neurological conditions and support individualized therapeutic strategies for patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. Our digitally-enabled, handheld device bridges the gap between multiple-biomarker strategies—that are more optimistic with complex, multifactorial diseases/conditions—and their implementation as a part of […]
Raman Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Intervertebral Disk Degeneration
Mentors Project Description The intervertebral disk (IVD) is a specialized connective tissue situated in between adjacent vertebrae to function as a cushion-like shock absorber. The composition and structure of the IVD is optimized for its mechanical performance, consisting of an inner proteoglycan-rich nucleus pulposus (NP), which pressurizes in response to mechanical compressive loading, and an […]
Fluorescent Imaging Prototype for Paper-based Diagnostics
Mentors Project Description Jana Care is a medical diagnostics company pushing to improve health outcomes for people living with chronic diseases around the world. Our unique approach leverages an affordable, connected ecosystem that can perform key blood tests and provide actionable lifestyle feedback to empower patients and healthcare providers. We develop new diagnostic tests, that […]