$20M Grant Funds Portable Eye Scanning Tech
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 19, 2024 — The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded $20 million to develop a portable OCT system that could offer advanced eye screenings to many more patients at lower costs. The technology could also be used in other applications, including cardiology, dermatology, dentistry, endoscopy, and urology. The work will be led by Chao Zhou, a professor of biomedical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Zhou plans to build