Professor Hielscher wins PGIF award

May 10, 2018

Dr. Hielscher and Dr. Bajakian won the 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. The additional patient data will strengthen new NIH proposals to be jointly submitted. Furthermore, by having data from a Mideast population, follow up funding could be pursued from the Ministries of  Health in Jordan and other Mideastern funding agencies in Qatar, the UAE, and Egypt.