Quail Egg ICU Monitor

Quail Egg ICU Monitor

Quail embryos provide a time and cost-effective intermediate for testing children's cancer therapies before moving to animal trials. Currently, there is no way to evaluate the effect of the drugs during testing, apart from egg mortality rates. Our goal for this project is to develop a method to continually measure the vitals of the quail eggs to increase the reliability and repeatability of experiments for the development of cancer therapies.

Team Members

Leah Davidson, Biological Engineering
Richard Deming, Computer Science
Gabryel Conley, Computer Science
Silpa Subedi, Biological Engineering
Luis Lopez, Computer Science
Bradley Nicholas, Biological Engineering

Client/Sponsor

Charles Keller, Children's Cancer Therapy Development Institute

Faculty Advisor

Dev Shrestha, U of I Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering