Game-changing advances
Life-saving technology invented by a former University of Cincinnati professor
Eight years ago, when University of Illinois at Chicago bioengineering professor Ian Papautsky was still at the University of Cincinnati, he spearheaded an effort to develop a quick, portable, smartphone-sized sensor that measures human exposure to lead, manganese, and possibly other toxic metals using a single finger prick of blood.
This life-saving research will continue, thanks to a three-year, $1.8 million grant finalized Aug. 31 by the National Institutes of Health, which will provide public health officials and patients with a faster, cheaper method to detect neurotoxins that can cause learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and Parkinson’s disease-like symptoms. Read more about the history and progress of Papautsky’s finger-prick technology here.
