Professor Hielscher wins 2018 President’s Global Innovation Fund Grants

Dr. Hielscher and Dr. Bajakian were one of the winner of 2018 President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF) which provides support to Columbia Faculty who utilize the nine Global Centers as a resource for teaching and research activities. The project extend a current clinical study performed at CUIMC, which explores a novel optical technology for assessing the vasculature in PAD patients, to include 2 hospitals in Jordan. The Columbia team will build two imaging systems that will be transferred to JUST, where an engineering team will collaborate with physicians at KAUH and the Jordon University Hospital to perform a study involving at least 50 patients.