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A Career in Translation: From Dynamics, to Diagnostics, to Devices
Start Date: 2/28/2014Start Time: 4:00 PM
End Date: 2/28/2014End Time: 5:30 PM

Event Description
Christopher M. Strohsahl, PhD, from Drummond Scientific, Inc., will discuss how the ability of today’s medical community to successfully treat nearly any malady has grown, and continues to grow, in leaps and bounds. So much is this the case, that in many (if not most) situations, the determination as to whether the treatment outcome will be successful relies more on when the correct diagnosis is made, rather than what that diagnosis actually is. This becomes especially true when dealing with infections that may possess resistances to one, or multiple, treatment options. Over the last decade, it has been a focus of Dr. Strohsahl, along with a number of his colleagues, to help shift the diagnostic paradigm away from tests that are centrally located and require significant time and overhead, to ones that are not only easier, faster, and less expensive to use, but also provide the ability to generate more robust sets of data. These efforts began at the University of Rochester with the intent to study the dynamics associated with the hybridization of two, highly structured, pieces of DNA, and quickly grew into an entrepreneurial opportunity to create oligonucleotide-based diagnostics. This presentation will describe the development of that initial idea and its eventual translation into a start-up company. From there, it will explain how that experience is now being leveraged at Drummond Scientific, both specifically, by addressing the critical role precision sample handling plays in diagnostics, and in general, by working to connect the company’s unique engineering and manufacturing abilities with academic and entrepreneurial ingenuity in need of an established partner. For more info, please visit www.biomed.drexel.edu.
Contact Information:
Name: Banu Onaral
Phone: 215-895-2247
Email: banu.onaral@drexel.edu
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Location:
Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB), Room 120, located at the corner of 33rd and Chestnut Streets.
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  • Alumni
  • Current Students
  • Faculty
  • Prospective Students
  • Public
  • Staff
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