ASU, Mayo Clinic alliance will produce $40 million radiation exposure detection prototype
A new partnership between Arizona State University (ASU) and Mayo Clinic aimed at improving medical education and healthcare has one goal that will affect radiology.
Although the partnership, announced Oct. 21, has many parts to it, one specific plan is to develop a prototype to detect radiation exposure, an initiative that will cost $40 million, ASU said in a statement. The project involves biomedical informatics, molecular detection and medical imaging.
The work will be done at a new medical school run by Mayo Clinic near ASU’s campus in Scottsdale, Arizona. ASU is planning to break ground in 2017 on a 150,000-square-foot Health Solutions Innovation Center.
The alliance overall hopes to create doctors “more broadly scoped and more empowered to change healthcare outcomes at the individual scale, change healthcare at the national scale and help us be able to afford this fantastic medical care that we all would like,” said ASU President Michael Crow in a statement.
Senior Writer
As a Senior Writer for TriMed Media Group, Katherine primarily focuses on producing news stories, Q&As and features for Cardiovascular Business. She reports on several facets of the cardiology industry, including emerging technology, new clinical trials and findings, and quality initiatives among providers. She is based out of TriMed's Chicago office and holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has appeared in Modern Healthcare, Crain's Chicago Business and The Detroit News. She joined TriMed in 2016.