IEEE Spectrum: Global health experts don’t worry about if a major infectious disease outbreak will occur; it’s just a matter of when. Purdue researchers are developing smartphone-enabled point-of-care disease detection platform to detect infectious agents in the environment before an outbreak begins.

Jacqueline Linnes, assistant professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, is developing a smart watch that monitors a person's health in real time. The device tracks physiological measurements, detects overdoses, and is connected to a smart phone that could call for help.

Gurneet Sangha, a fourth-year doctoral student at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, has received a Baxter Young Investigator Award. The award honors researchers who are focused on developing critical care therapies and medical products that save and sustain patients’ lives. Sangha is advised by Assistant Professor Craig Goergen.

PURSPEC Technologies Inc., whose miniature spectrometers may improve medical diagnosis and patient compliance by reducing the time needed to analyze samples, has opened offices in the Purdue Research Park. PURSPEC also has locations in Beijing and Shanghai.

Four students from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering took on the challenge of using engineering to try to save lives in Ecuador and other countries, and their efforts have been nationally recognized.

More than 2,000 college students from 30 universities around the world will collaborate on a medical design hackathon as part of the Sept. 22-23 Design Good Now conference.

Researchers at Purdue University are creating a device that they hope will help identify risk factors that cause breast cancer.

The National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center has awarded Purdue University's Young Kim, associate professor with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and Md Munirul Haque, research scientist with the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, and their interdisciplinary research team, a $385,000, two-year grant to improve mobile testing for anemia in resource-limited settings.

The NSF I-Corps program has selected doctoral student Shruthi Suresh to join other innovative student researchers for one of its fall 2017 cohorts.

Taylor Moehling, a PhD student, has received the Fearnot-Laufman-Greatbatch Award for best summer seminar presentation.