Now 20 years old, Shah is currently a freshman studying biomedical engineering in Boston University’s College of Engineering after serving two years in the Singapore Armed Forces as a combat medic.
Hadi Nia, researcher and assistant professor in the College of Engineering, is a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award.
Cancer claimed 584,881 lives in 2013, making it the second leading cause of death in the United States that year, according to statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The...