David Erickson, professor of mechanical and aerospace
engineering at Cornell University, will receive a $3 million National Science
Foundation grant over five years to adapt smart phones for health monitoring.
Erickson will head a multidisciplinary team of investigators
from Cornell, Cornell NYC Tech, Cornell Weill Medical College, the University
of Maryland and the University of California Los Angeles. The program, dubbed
PHeNoM for Public Health, Nanotechnology, and Mobility, aims to deploy three
systems that can have an immediate impact on personal healthcare: a
Stress-Phone for long term stress management, a Nutri-Phone for nutritional
awareness and a Hema-Phone for monitoring viral loading in HIV positive
patients.