The funding will support clinical research of new telehealth methods for better cancer care, under the reignited White House Cancer Moonshot initiative.

Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering, and Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor and Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, played critical roles in the development of a report from Engineering Research Visioning Alliance which delineates research priorities the engineering research community can pursue to address climate change.