Sale of UMass Lowell-Developed Technology Brings In $3.8M
When global pharmaceutical company Allergan acquired Anterios, it also acquired intellectual property developed at UMass Lowell.
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Professor Engineers Life-Saving Heart Valve Replacement
Mechanical Engineering Asst. Prof. Scott Stapleton and research collaborators are developing tissue-engineered heart valves that can be implanted in a less invasive procedure that can cut the cost of the operation and the patient’s hospital recovery time, especially for the young and elderly. -
Student Designs System for Total Hip Replacement
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Tina Dardeno ’14, who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award, is developing a non-contact, non-invasive method for monitoring the insertion and seating of cementless femoral implants in real-time. -
University Researchers Develop Safer Approaches for Lung Cancer Screening
A team of researchers led by electrical and computer engineering Assoc. Prof. Hengyong Yu is developing a new ultralow-dose CT screening method to improve the image quality and resolution of CT scans while reducing the radiation dose.