SOUTH CAROLINA: INBRE researcher receives $2M NCI grant
Former SC INBRE DRP recipient Joe Carson, College of Charleston, received a two-year, $2 million NIH Phase II grant award from the National Cancer Institute.
Carson’s 2020-2022 SC INBRE DRP grant was entitled, “Advancing Low Cost, All-Focus, 3D Imaging Technologies, Using Shape-From-Focus Techniques.” This new NIH Phase II grant is entitled, “A Novel, Low-Cost, Handheld, 3D Imaging System for Improved Screening of Cervical Neoplasia in Resource Limited Settings.” The two-year grant will be used to complete research & development and conduct clinical testing of the device in three countries, including the US (at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine), Kenya (at the Aga Khan University), and Malawi (at the University of Science and Technology). Pensievision will also partner with the Virginia Tech Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics (BEAM) for coordinating global health activities and advancing technology components. SC INBRE congratulates Joe on this big achievement and is pleased to have been a part of this success!
Pensievision was founded by Dr. Joe Carson, Dr. YT Liu, Tal Almog, and Ben Carson, with the help of world-class experts in the fields of imaging, medicine, and business.
In 2022 the company completed the development of CervImage™, the world’s first handheld colposcope capable of producing real-time, 3D high-resolution images of the cervix, to assist in early-stage screening and analysis of cervical cancer.
Pensievision’s patented 3D optical imaging technology is unique in its approach of using astronomy imaging techniques, coupled with artificial intelligence, for imaging of lesions inside the body. The technology was developed leveraging Dr. Carson’s extensive experience in extraterrestrial imaging, including his discovery of a ‘super-Jupiter’, and of the coldest imaged companion of a sun-like star (for which he was recognized as ‘TIME magazine top 10 science discoveries of 2009’).