With over 42,000 votes from around the world, iBreastExam (iBE), a hand-held breast cancer screening device developed by Drexel Materials professor Wei-Heng Shih and associate professor Wan Shih from the School of Biomedical Engineering, won the 2017 Bayer Cares Foundation Aspirin Social Innovation .
The award focuses on social innovation in health and nutrition with international scope. iBE is a portable, low-cost, radiation-free breast cancer detector that can be used in a doctor's office as a first-line to detect breast cancer in younger women as well as in women over 40 with mammographically dense-tissue breasts. It has been licensed to UE LifeSciences who has partnered with GE Healthcare to expand availability of iBE to 25+ countries, bringing this efficient, inexpensive screening option to more than 500 million women.