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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute working on open-source ventilator designs

April 1, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Researchers at Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute (WPI) are touting a design for turning inexpensive bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitators into automated ventilators to aid the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. The WPI team is designing the ventilators from readily available, manual BVM resuscitators so that they can fill the gap between the number of ventilators […]

Filed Under: Hospital Care, Research & Development, Respiratory Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Boston Sci joins cyber-physical R&D collaborative

February 4, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX)  has joined PracticePoint, a membership-based, cyber-physical medtech R&D and commercialization alliance founded by Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute (WPI). PracticePoint is an agile, scalable collaborative research facility featuring point-of-practice clinical suites — including a residential suite, rehabilitative care suite, controlled care suite, and surgical imaging suite — co-located with engineering and manufacturing capabilities and […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, News Well, Research & Development Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Diabetes: WPI to run pilot study on foot ulcer app

April 15, 2015 By Val Kennedy

Diabetes: WPI to run pilot study on foot ulcer app

Researchers connected with Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the UMass. Medical School are gearing up to run a pilot study on a new smartphone app that tracks the progress of foot ulcers in diabetics.

Filed Under: Diabetes, Digital Health, News Well Tagged With: Clinical Trials, University of Massachusetts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Diabetes: WPI team gets $1.2M for diabetes care app | Funding Roundup

December 13, 2011 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

A research team from Worcester Polytechnic Institute won a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a smart phone app for people with advanced diabetes.

The proposed application, currently named "sugar," will link a patient’s smart phone, glucose meter and scale to track and archive blood sugar levels and weight. Patients with foot ulcers will be able to use the phone’s camera to capture and analyze images of the lesions.

Filed Under: Digital Health, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Funding Roundup, News Well, Regenerative Medicine, Research & Development Tagged With: Advanced Cell Technology Inc., Apple, BrainScope Company Inc., defensedepartment, Insulin Management, National Science Foundation (NSF), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

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