While there is currently no cure for blindness, a first-of-its-kind artificial vision system has undergone its first successful implantation, bringing with it the potential to restore partial vision...
CHICAGO—February 16, 2022—The Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP), an implant that bypasses the retina and optic nerves to connect directly to the brain’s visual cortex, has been successfully surgically implanted in the ICVP study’s first participant at Rush University Medical Center this week. This surgery is part of a Phase I Feasibility Study of an Intracortical Visual Prosthesis for People With Blindness. The ICVP system was developed by a multi-institution team led by Philip R. Troyk—executive director of the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, professor of biomedical engineering—and represents the culmination of nearly three decades of Illinois Tech research dedicated to ultimately providing artificial sight to those with blindness due to eye disease or trauma.
The Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture is pleased to announce an exciting new degree program, the Master of Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism (M.TBVU). The program—the first...
CHICAGO—Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), in partnership with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), today announced a first-of-its-kind, one-year multidisciplinary graduate...
In the United States, it’s estimated up to 40 percent of food produced is never eaten. Food is being wasted at every step of the food supply chain that connects farms to forks—from production to...
According to the American Diabetes Association, 7.3 million adults in the United States have undiagnosed diabetes. Researchers from Illinois Institute of Technology are part of a research team that is...
Behind the glitz of electric cars is a transportation sustainability problem yet to be solved: large vehicles like long-haul trucks and airplanes are still very challenging to electrify. Illinois...
CHICAGO—February 10, 2022—Illinois Institute of Technology Associate Professor Carrie Hall is using machine learning and computer modelling to ease the transition to electrifying large vehicles by...
When Enrique Espinoza (LAW ’22) first enrolled at Chicago-Kent College of Law years ago, he was just hoping to get a job helping immigrants like himself. After working for decades in the hospitality...
Illinois Institute of Technology continues to strengthen its commitment to research excellence and experiential learning with the recent joint faculty appointments of two Argonne National Laboratory...
