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Article: WVU PHYSICS PROFESSOR AWARDED $330K NSF GRANT TO DEVELOP LASER DIAGNOSTICS TOOL
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- October 31, 2009
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Oct. 30 -- West Virginia University issued the following news release:
Feruz Ganikhanov, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Physics at West Virginia University, plans to advance the medical industry with an alternative diagnostics tool to track biological cell processes that could lead to earlier detection of disease.
He received a National Science Foundation award valued at nearly $330,000 to explore a new approach to building laser-based instruments that have micro-imaging abilities to view and scan small, complex cell compartments without disturbing biological structures.
"Our laser device will enable broad research in biology, chemistry, physics and ...