A University of Minnesota CTSI grantee has developed a new kind of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that has the potential to change medical care for millions of children.
Efraín Torres, Ph.D., who completed his doctoral degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Minnesota this fall, alongside Parker Jenkins, who is in the midst of completing his Ph.D. degree, and the team at Adialante has created a portable and low-cost MRI scanner. Thanks to a grant from CTSI’s Office of Discovery and Translation (ODAT), he hopes to quickly move it to market.
ODAT was the first to fund the product, awarding Torres and collaborators a $148,000 grant to apply their proprietary MRI technology platform to pediatric MRI scanning. And then, just one year later, Torres and team broke $1.3 million in funding and are looking to complete their seed round of financing at $3.5 million...
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