BioE MEng team wins Fung Mission Award

brain cell therapy

The Master of Engineering capstone team of Yu-Shuo Chen, Kylua Chen, Matthew Kennedy, Paula Schultheiss, and Jesse Yang, mentored by Bioengineering Professors Irina Conboy and Syed Hossainy, has won the 2019 Fung Institute Mission Award for Most Innovative Project.

Their project, Exploring Post-Stroke Neural Recovery Via Exogenous Electromagnetic Field Therapy investigates the therapeutic potential of low-frequency electromagnetic field stimulation on neural cells lines and may result in a new form of treatment for stroke sufferers.