May 15, 2008
The CellScope, a project of Bioengineering students let by Associate Professor Dan Fletcher, BioE Ph.D. candidates David Breslauer and Wilbur Lam and BioE alum Robi Maamari, has been picked up by news media across the country.
The CellScope is a project to turn the camera of a cell phone into a clinical-quality light microscope that can transmit images of patient samples remotely for evaluation by specialists. Especially suited for use in the developing world, the cellscope project is being funded primarily by the Blum Center for Developing Economies, CITRIS, and Microsoft Research.
CellScope has been featured recently in:
ABC local channel 7 evening news
The Economist
Wired Online
medGadget, the Internet Journal of Emerging Medical Technologies
Laser Focus World
The Future of Things
the UC-CITRIS newsletter