Our work guiding the commercialization of 2016 Design Team 11’s project (formerly Echospine, now Accuo), has been awarded funding from the Maryland Innovation Initiative ($115k) and the Cohen Translational Engineering fund ($40k) to continue our work developing an ultrasound-on-a-needle. The project aims to improve deep needle placements, like lumbar punctures.

We were awarded a second $100k grant to continue our work in developing a low-cost cryotherapy system for cancer treatment in low-resource settings.

Congrats to Jordan for winning first prize and Taylor for winning honorable mention at the 2017 Photonics Conference graduate poster competition.

https://engineering.jhu.edu/ece/osa/hopkins-photonics-conference/

Dr. Durr gave a seminar to the Laser Microbeam and Medical Program at UCI’s Beckman Laser institute on designing impactful biophotonics solutions to  healthcare needs.

http://lammp.bli.uci.edu/seminar.php?mode=abstract&id=596

Come see us in San Francisco and Houston for our upcoming SPIE presentations:

1. Mahmood F, Durr NJ. “Deep learning-based depth estimation from a synthetic endoscopy image training set” SPIE Medical Imaging 10574-72 Feb 12, 2018.
2. Mahmood F, Nishioka NS, Durr NJ. “Quantitative polyp size measurements with photometric stereo endoscopy enhanced by deep learning” SPIE Photonics West 10487-15 2018.
3. Sweer J, Durr NJ. “Mapping optical properties of the esophagus using sub-diffuse spatial frequency domain imaging” SPIE Photonics West 10489-20 2018.

Join us for the 2017 MedHacks event!

http://medhacks.org/

Undergraduate design teams from Dr. Durr’s course won three out of ten awards at the NIH DEBUT Challenge. This design competition recognizes undergraduate excellence in biomedical design and innovation. Entries were judged on significance of the problem being addresses, impact on potential users and clinical care, innovative design, and working prototype.

Kaleyedos won, among many other awards, the Grand Prize award at the 2017 Student Design Showcase at the Design of Medical Device Conference, and a $25k First Place prize at the Tulane business plan competition.

Treyetech won a $15k second place award at the TCU […]

Dr. Durr presented as part of a panel at the Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery XV, Engineering Conference International (ECI) session on “Development and commercialization in biophotonics”.  The group also had time for white water rafting 🙂

A collaboration between Drs. Moghekar, Boctor, and Durr, has led to a Maryland Innovation Initiative award for: “Developing a device to more accurately target spine during lumbar punctures (LP) to collect cerebrospinal fluid(CSF)”.

http://tedco.md/award/mii-award-projects/#jhu

ASME has published an article describing the journey from idea to product for PlenOptika’s QuickSee device. http://demandasme.org/fellow-visionaries/