NJIT receives patent for new shunt to aid brain-injured patients
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
NJIT Professor Gordon Thomas and NJIT Research Professor Reginald Farrow, both in the department of physics, and NJIT alumnus Sheng Liu, formerly a doctoral student of both researchers and now an engineer at a biotech company, were awarded a patent today for the NJIT SmartShunt, a unique device to help patients with brain injuries.