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ASSIST Technologies Can Revolutionize Global Health Care
The ASSIST team is passionate about developing new, integrated technologies that will enable a new era of data-driven medicine, tying cause to effect, and permitting revolutionary and affordable advances in the quality of healthcare.
The ASSIST Center Leadership Team
Using nanotechnology to improve global health by enabling correlation between personal health and personal environment and by empowering patients and doctors to manage wellness and improve quality of life.
Medical, Environmental and Industrial Advisory Boards
Critical to the impact of ASSIST’s wearable, self-powered sensing and communication devices are the medical, environmental exposure, and social acceptance aspects of the Center’s research.
Pre-College Education Outreach Program
We have developed strategic outreach partnerships with 11 middle and high schools to enhance teachers’ engineering content knowledge and teaching methods.

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NC State to Lead NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center on Self-Powered Health Monitoring

North Carolina State University will lead a national nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the surrounding environment affects it, the National Science Foundation
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Dr. Veena Misra and Dr. John Muth provide leadership for ASSIST.

New NSF Engineering Research Center to Unearth Connections between Health and Environment through Nanosystems

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today an award to North Carolina State University and its partners to establish a new NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) focused on nanoscale systems that integrate self-powered
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About Assist

Monteith Research Center at North Carolina State University

The National Science Foundation
The NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center (NERC) for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) will develop and employ nano-enabled energy harvesting, energy storage, nanodevices and sensors to create innovative battery-free, body-powered, and wearable health monitoring systems.

Vision

We envision a paradigm shift in health informatics enabled by wearable nanotechnologies that monitor individual health parameters and environmental exposures. Long-term sensing will enable patients, doctors, and scientists to make direct correlations between health and environmental toxins leading to chronic disease prediction, management and treatment. ASSIST advances will accelerate environmental health research and clinical trials as well as inform environmental policy.

Mission

Use nanotechnology to improve global health by enabling correlation between personal health and personal environment and by empowering patients and doctors to manage wellness and improve quality of life.