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Sean Knecht receives a large cardboard check from Pat Halphin-Murphy, the president and of the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition

Distinguishing dense tissue from cancerous tumors

5/7/18

Sean Knecht, assistant teaching professor in the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition to develop a real-time, portable photoacoustic imaging system that can effectively distinguish dense breast tissue from cancerous tumors.

Plasma entered into petri dishes

NIH grant supports exploration of plasma medicine capabilities in blood

11/28/17

Researchers in Penn State’s Colleges of Engineering, Agricultural Sciences, and Medicine have been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to investigate how low-temperature plasma can treat infectious bacterial growth on human tissue and prosthetic implants in the cardiovascular system.