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Biotechnologies provide a fundamental crux between improving laboratory sciences and the medical field. The development of these new technologies requires both technical prowess and a keen business sense so that the products reach the people that need them.

One student at the cross section of this crux is Irena Volkov.

Volkov recently graduated with a Bachelor of Science in neuroscience and a personalized minor in bioentrepreneurship. Her time at American Univ

Nov. 11, 2019

Alexander Mendoza

WASHINGTON — Inside the “Build and Design Lab” at American University in Washington, D.C., a 3-D printer is crafting a small solution to a big problem.

It’s an all-in-one, disposable, and biodegradable tool that would innovate intubation – the process of putting a tube down a patient’s throat.

Irena Volkov, a neuroscientist by training, says the old way of completing intubation wasn’t good enough. She and

Jul. 1, 2019

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