Ic­ahn School of Med­i­cine, RPI launch new in­sti­tute fo­cused on en­gi­neer­ing and pre­ci­sion med­i­cine

An up­state New York uni­ver­si­ty is join­ing forces with a Man­hat­tan in­sti­tu­tion to bridge med­ical re­search and en­gi­neer­ing.

The Troy, NY-based Rens­se­laer Poly­tech­nic In­sti­tute (RPI) and the Ic­ahn School of Med­i­cine at Mount Sinai have band­ed to­geth­er to cre­ate the Cen­ter for En­gi­neer­ing and Pre­ci­sion Med­i­cine (CEPM) in New York City.

Ac­cord­ing to RPI, the PhD pro­gram for the cen­ter will ac­com­mo­date 30 to 40 stu­dents, with the cen­ter aim­ing to bring 100 or more Rens­se­laer un­der­grad­u­ates on a steady ba­sis to New York City as re­search stu­dents, for cap­stone de­sign or in­tern­ships.

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