Mondal to study home hemolysis screening tool for Sickle cell disease patients
Dr. Pritish Mondal, associate professor of pediatrics, is the recipient of the 2021 Lloyd Prize for Innovative Thinking, which he will use to develop an at-home screening test for hemolysis — or the rupturing of blood cells — in patients with Sickle cell disease, which affects approximately 1 out of 350 African American children in the U.S.
Source: psu.edu