{"id":3166,"date":"2017-03-02T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2023-06-08T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:46:22","slug":"hung-cao-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/02\/hung-cao-award","title":{"rendered":"Hung Cao wins $549,000 NSF CAREER Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>By Douglas Esser<br \/>\nHung Cao has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation. He hopes the $549,000 is just the beginning.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/hung-cao--3-.jpg\" alt=\"Hung Cao\" class=\"wp-image-28323\"><\/figure>\n\n<p>(Marc Studer photo)<\/p>\n\n<p>Cao could use more support as he pushes the bounds of science. This five-year award will allow him to establish a competitive engineering team, which could attract more funding for long-term projects for his research group. It&#039;s developing tiny electronics to monitor the hearts of zebrafish. Why zebrafish? Their hearts can regenerate after a 20 percent loss. Human hearts can&rsquo;t. What if the genes that regenerate damaged heart tissue could be activated in people who suffer heart attacks?<\/p>\n\n<p>&ldquo;The research I want is high-impact exploring science,&rdquo; Cao says.<\/p>\n\n<p>The School of Science, Technology, Engineering &amp; Mathematics assistant professor is UW Bothell&rsquo;s fourth NSF CAREER Award winner. Add his name to the list of Kristina Hillesland, Hazeline Asuncion and Gwen Ottinger, says Carolyn Brennan, assistant vice chancellor for research.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/zebrafish.jpg\" alt=\"zebrafish\" class=\"wp-image-28324\"><\/figure>\n\n<p>Trained in electrical engineering, Cao is interested in biomedical devices using tiny electronics for monitoring and diagnostics. One of his current students, <a href=\"\/news\/november-2016\/research-fellowship\">Manuja Sharma<\/a>, is developing a blood pressure measuring patch that would be more accurate than the standard cuff that inflates on the upper arm. Hung says having the <a href=\"\/news\/december-2016\/clean-room\">&ldquo;clean room&rdquo; in Discovery Hall<\/a> to manufacture Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) devices is crucial.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cao&rsquo;s zebrafish are located at a University of Washington School of Medicine research facility in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle. The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a popular aquarium fish that&rsquo;s widely used in scientific research. It was one of the first vertebrates to be cloned and to have its genome sequenced. <\/p>\n\n<p>Cao calls the device he&rsquo;s developing a &ldquo;jacket&rdquo; that the fish wears so it can be monitored as it swims around. It will take one or two years to develop. Then it can be deployed for biological investigations.<\/p>\n\n<p>&ldquo;We hope at the end of five years we would get some sort of device that fish can wear for long term, so we can measure heart regeneration over time,&rdquo; Cao says. &ldquo;As of now, existing technology can&rsquo;t do that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n<p>If you can put a heart monitor on a fish the size of the tip of your pinky finger, putting a wireless device on a human to monitor the heart (ECG) or brain (EEG) would be very feasible, Cao says. Research on such micro-devices has been done at Cal Tech and UCLA, but &ldquo;at this point, I would say our lab is the only one in the world trying to do this.&rdquo;<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/rs-01.jpg\" alt=\"body monitor graphic\" class=\"wp-image-28325\"><\/figure>\n\n<p>Developing the tools is just a means to his goal of studying how a fish heart can regenerate, but a mammal heart cannot. Cao views his work at UW Bothell as a way to advance research and to introduce students to innovations in medical devices and biology.<\/p>\n\n<p>&ldquo;We can help the student. We can shape their future. We can foster them to pursue a career in biomedical engineering,&rdquo; Cao says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Hung Cao has received a prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214\">Faculty Early Career Development Program grant from the National Science Foundation<\/a>. 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