David Brafman

From lab to startup: ASU researchers drive health innovation

ASU engineering students are being trained to also be entrepreneurs, says biomedical engineer David Brafman, associate director of academic excellence in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, part of the Fulton Schools. Those students have an example to follow in Jessica Weaver, an associate professor in the school whose startup venture is contributing to a growing wave of engineering-driven health care innovations. Her company, ImmunoShield Therapeutics, is developing technology to avoid the immune system from rejecting transplanted therapeutics cells. The venture is among others giving graduate and undergraduate students opportunities to work with faculty members on research to develop promising health care and medical advances.