Professor Andrew Dunn was recently awarded a Phase II Translational Research Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.
Andrew Dunn
Professor Andrew Dunn was recently awarded a Phase II Translational Research Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.
The $260,000 award will provide two years of funding to support Professor Dunn in his clinical collaboration with Dr. Douglas Fox, a neurosurgeon and medical director of the NeuroTexas Institute at St. David’s HealthCare in Austin, Texas.
Dunn and Fox are developing a new imaging technique that can image blood flow in real time during surgery. The technique is based on laser speckle contrast imaging, a method that has been under development in Dr. Dunn’s lab for the past several years. By enabling neurosurgeons to visualize blood flow in real time without disruption to the normal operating procedure, surgeons will be able to better identify the degree of perfusion in blood vessels. This technique will aid surgeons in aneurysm repair and resection of brain tumors.
The Coulter Translational Research Awards program provides funding for professors in established biomedical engineering departments within the United States. The award seeks to support biomedical research that is translational in nature, and to encourage and assist eligible biomedical engineering investigators to establish themselves in academic careers involving translational research. The translational research projects are directed at promising technologies with the goal of progressing toward commercial development and entering clinical practice.
