Subscribe These researchers not only contribute to the community of innovation at ASU, they also embody an inventive and entrepreneurial drive to bring solutions out of the lab and into the world, said Sally C. Morton, executive vice president of the ASU Knowledge Enterprise. With their focus on developing technologies that make a difference in people s lives, they reflect the goal in our university s charter of assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities we serve.
Associate Professor Erica Forzani has contributed to the development of many important medical devices and technological advances during her career.
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Arizona State University has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Kordower as the founding director of the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center and endowed chair as The Charlene and J. Orin Edson Distinguished Director at the Biodesign Institute.
For more than 30 years, Kordower has been a faculty member at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, where he was the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Neurological Sciences. His pathbreaking investigations into the underpinnings of neurodegenerative disease have made him a leader in the field and his ambitious plans for the NDRC promise to make the facility an internationally recognized center of excellence in this highly diverse research space.
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