Students gain experience with Mayo Clinic

Eleven people – five graduate and six undergraduate students – helped medical companies scale to market as part of the ASU and Mayo Clinic MedTech Accelerator program. The accelerator pairs students to serve as interns with medical instrument companies from around the world.

“Our incredible student interns are not just an asset, but they have become an essential component to the success of our program,” says Dr. Steven Lester, founder and chief medical officer of the MedTech Accelerator program. Learn more at mayo.asu.edu

Shawn Zhuang of CardioStory demonstrates the company’s noninvasive cardiac pressure measuring and monitoring device on intern Ramkeerthan Konda.

Heat Impacts

World’s 1st outdoor manikin for health

Behind a 4-inch-thick metal door with a small glass window in the far northeast corner of the Tempe campus lives ANDI, the world’s first indoor-outdoor breathing, sweating and walking thermal manikin that can be used outdoors.

Using the manikin, “We’re trying to develop a very good understanding of how heat impacts the human body so we can quantitatively design things to address it,” says Konrad Rykaczewski, associate professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and principal investigator.