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News and Events
Combining at-home testing to manage inflammation-related diseases
Professor Paul Yager, an expert in low-cost point-of-care diagnostic technologies, and his team received $75,000 in support from the Innovation Gap Fund in June
Events
Machine learning for atrial fibrillation treatment that “shows its work”
A UW team gives doctors and patients a new tool in treating a leading cause of strokes and heart failure.
Ratner earns NIH tech transfer grant to improve dialysis for patients
Buddy Ratner earns a $1.6 million grant that will support a new method of recycling dialysate that is 500 times more efficient than current approaches.
Nishant Velagapudi – From Capstone to CTO
Alumnus Nishant Velagapudi shared his experience at an AI-based medtech company with 2025 capstone students
Featured Publications
Black Dots: High-Yield Traction Force Microscopy Reveals Structural Factors Contributing to Platelet Forces
Kevin M Beussman, Molly Y Mollica, Andrea Leonard, Jeffrey Miles, [...]
Pharmacologic therapy for engraftment arrhythmia induced by transplantation of human cardiomyocytes
Charles Murry, Rong Tian, colleagues find approach suppresses engraftment arrhythmia.
Computational modeling identifies embolic stroke of undetermined source patients with potential arrhythmic substrate
Senior authors Patrick Boyle and Nazem Akoum published in eLife.
