682798news17500863651750086819<![CDATA[Georgia Tech Researcher Receives $2.9M Grant to Develop Ingestible Probes for Breath-Based Cancer Detection]]>
As the second-leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., colorectal cancer is rising in the number of cases in younger adults. To combat this and offer a less-invasive alternative to a colonoscopy, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Leslie Chan and her lab has been awarded a grant to develop an innovative diagnostic to detect colorectal cancer through a simple breath test. Read more.]]>
2025-06-16T00:00:00-04:00The grant will fund the development of cutting-edge technology that could detect colorectal cancer through a simple breath test.]]>677233image<![CDATA[Leslie Chan and Vishal Manickam, graduate student who works on the design and testing of the ingestible probes. ]]>261113image/jpegKelly Petty
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Wallace H. Coulter Depratment of Biomedical Engineering