Dream Team to battle stroke

Jake and Vlad Muzykantov's team was awarded the Penn Cardiovascular Institute's "Dream Team Grant" for their project, "Synergizing drug-loaded nanocarriers with endovascular thrombectomy catheters for the treatment of ischemic stroke." The co-PIs on the team are a true interdisciplinary group of clinicians, scientists, and engineers: Raimon Duran-Struuck, DVM, PhD (Vet School),

David M. Eckmann, PhD, MD (Anesthesiology and Bioengineering), Stephen J. Hunt, MD, PhD (Interventional Radiology), Scott Kasner, MD (Neurology), David Kung, MD (Neurosurgery), MacLean Nasrallah, MD, PhD (Neuropathology), Mark Turco, MD (Chief Innovation Officer at the Penn Center for Innovation), and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD (Medicine)