REINVENTING
Medicine
Mapping the Human Mind
Neuroscientist Jacopo Annese aims to create 2-D and
3-D structural maps of the human brain. These maps
will provide important points of reference throughout
the campus's ongoing research efforts under the
Obama administration's BRAIN Initiative.
Jacopo Annese
Exploring the Frontier of
Drug Delivery
Adah Almutairi directs the Center for Excellence in
Nanomedicine and Engineering. Researchers in the
center are creating nanoparticles that promise new
levels of precision in treating disease. They will be
able to deliver drugs under highly specific conditions-
when triggered by light or when they encounter a
disease-related condition.
Adah Almutairi
Transmitting Data via Tattoos
Todd Coleman's research focuses on wireless tattoo
technology that will transmit vital medical data,
bringing yesterday's science fiction into today's reality.
His ultrathin devices can monitor brain waves, heart
rates and other vital signs without tying a patient
to a machine, an especially promising advance for
neonatal care.
Todd Coleman
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of US Airways - April 2014