RMU Engineering Alum Develops Robotic Blood Drawing & Testing Device
RMU Engineering Alumni Josh Leipheimer, who graduated in 2016 with a Biomedical & Mechanical Engineer Degree & Mechatronics Minor, is leading a team at Rutgers University who are developing a new robot for drawing & testing blood.
RMU Engineering Alum Josh Leipheimer
Current Biomedical Engineering Doctoral student at Rutgers University & RMU Engineering Alumni Josh Leipheimer, who graduated in 2016 with a Biomedical & Mechanical Engineer Degree & Mechatronics Minor, is leading a team at Rutgers University who are developing a new robot for drawing & testing blood. Their work has been published in Technology Journal & is the first human clinical trial of an automated blood drawing and testing device.
You can read more about the exciting project here.
“A device like ours could help clinicians get blood samples quickly, safely and reliably, preventing unnecessary complications and pain in patients from multiple needle insertion attempts,” said lead author Josh Leipheimer, a biomedical engineering doctoral student in the Yarmush lab in the biomedical engineering department in the School of Engineering at Rutgers Univesity-New Brunswick.