UB receives funding to develop brain aneurysm screening
In 2002, Western New York entrepreneur Jeff Harvey (Brain Aneurysm Foundation Board Member) lost his wife and high school sweetheart, Carol Harvey, to two ruptured brain aneurysms.
Years later, he is honoring her memory by working with University at Buffalo engineering and medical researchers with the goal of preventing similar deaths.
Jeff Harvey is co-founder of Neurovascular Diagnostics, a UB spinoff company that is developing a low-cost blood test to screen high-risk patients for unruptured brain aneurysms — pathological bulging in blood vessels that can eventually burst. Read full article.
By Charlotte Hsu