Friday, March 2, 2012
John Yeow's research made headlines in both the March 2 special engineering supplement of the Toronto Star and the paper's front page. One of Yeow's main research interests is inventing and developing tools for locating, examining and targeting micro-organisms inside the body. Yeow, a systems design engineering professor and the first Canada chair in micro and nanodevices, and his team of researchers have developed a miniaturized catheter that can provide medical practitioners with precise internal body imaging.The catheter will likely assist in the early detection of cancer and other diseases.