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With 73 U.S. patents and 70 international patents to his name, FAU engineering’s Hari Kalva, Ph.D., a pioneering innovator in video technology, is one of 10 inventors selected for the 2025 class of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.
Floods are among the most destructive natural hazards, causing billions of dollars in economic loss each year. By 2050, flood-related losses in the United States are expected to increase by 26%, with the share of properties facing at least a 1% annual chance of moderate to major flooding rising from 9% to 10%.
Though flooding is a widespread and relatively common hazard in the U.S., not all communities experience flood risks in the same way. In a study published in Natural Hazards, a Princeton-led research team examined the relationship between social vulnerability and flood risk, providing valuable insights into how flood impacts vary across different social and economic contexts.
Keck School of Medicine of USC will launch a new research initiative focused on extending the human health span with a $10 million transformative gift from R. Rex Parris and his wife Carrol Parris. The USC Parris Longevity Accelerator, to be led by Denis Evseenko, MD, PhD, professor of orthopedic surgery and regenerative medicine, will bring together experts from engineering, stem cell research and gerontology to uncover predictive biomarkers of aging and develop early interventions for age-related diseases. The USC Parris Longevity Accelerator aims to create treatments for major age-associated conditions like osteoarthritis, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disorders, with the goal of bringing them to clinical trials within a few years.
University of Texas at Dallas bioengineers, in collaboration with UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers, are developing an enhanced light-activated immunotherapy approach that could one day treat patients with stomach cancer that has spread throughout the abdomen.
The approach uses lab-designed molecules and far-red or near-infrared light to “prime” the immune system to help it attack stubborn cancer cells, said Dr. Girgis Obaid, assistant professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.