When Boaz Grof’s wife was breastfeeding, she developed a painful inflammation called mastitis that prevented her from continuing. So Grof decided to start a company that would attempt to revolutionize the breastfeeding experience for mothers worldwide.
The research awards will explore a range of challenges from designing safer drugs for HIV treatment and exoskeletons for use in stroke rehabilitation to improving the mental health of the elderly and understanding the nature of financial crises.
Through bold thinking, rigorous scholarship and cross-cutting collaborations, Katz School faculty are pushing the boundaries of knowledge with their latest research to benefit people and society.
Biotechnology student Natania Birnbaum is building a prototype for a hand exoskeleton that can take surface electromyography (sEMG) signals from the muscles of the arm and use them to move the exoskeleton's fingers.
An epidemiological study of dialysis patients conducted at the Renal Research Institute with the Katz School found that higher ultrafiltration rates in hemodialysis therapy tailored to body weight may put heavier patients at a higher risk of death.
Katz School alum Zak Benarroch is a cantor who’ll belt out a tune to suit an Orthodox Jewish holiday or a chorus from a Broadway musical. By day, he's a senior analyst on the regulatory relations team within the internal audit division at Goldman Sachs.
When Eliana Zachter, a student in the Katz School’s M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies, was prepping for a cesarean section with her surgical team at Bellevue Hospital, she was warned by the resident physician that there’d be a lot of blood.
Honggang Wang is a computer scientist with deep expertise in artificial intelligence and its applications to digital health, 5G/6G communications and cybersecurity.
Physician Assistant Studies students Noah Newlon, Irvin Cespedes, Jonathan Lehn and Michael Listro lobbied the New York state legislature as part of a delegation organized by the New York State Society of PAs.