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Stevens Institute of Technology
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How Stevens Is Reshaping the Future of Medicine

Healthcare is an $8 trillion global business — and a critical daily concern for millions of people. Stevens Institute of Technology performs leading-edge biomedical and healthcare research to discover new therapies, diagnostics, devices and mobile technologies; improve patient care and outcomes; and improve healthcare policy, medical operations and management practices.

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Stevens professor Mehmet Kurt, supported by the NSF, has developed new method of imaging the brain — research that will help engineer better protections against concussions and other traumatic brain injuries.

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Collaborating with Duke University, researcher George McConnell investigates ways to optimize treatment of Parkinson's disease and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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A Stevens team headed by professor Matt Libera partners with a top regional medical center to develop nanotechnology and new tests that promise to more rapidly detect and identify dangerous infections.

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In collaboration with Columbia University, professor Negar Tavassolian is testing new ways to monitor heartbeats, harvesting data with gyroscopes, accelerometers and Doppler radars, then processing it using machine learning to spot abnormal heartbeats before they become dangerous.

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Stevens Institute of Technology
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Hoboken, NJ 07030
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