Week 8: Anuj

 This was the last week of the Summer Immersion 2025, and I worked to document a report on the "Wide-view cystoscopy" project. This included key design aspects, quantified results on size fits, catheter draining tests, and some image stitching algorithms, and why they would be relevant for this project. We also talked to Cornell Licensing Tech officers to finalize the next steps which I will be working on for the next few weeks. It will be exciting to build a better prototype of this imaging system back in Ithaca, as I will have access to wider resources (technical lab space + Cornell NanoScale Facility). 

Reflecting on the past 8 weeks, it has been quite a bit of learning, especially on what goes on the patient care end. This includes patient consultation, diagnosis, surgeries, and post-surgery disease management. The summer immersion program is a rare opportunity for someone with an engineering background to spend time in the diagnosis and operating rooms. This allows us to observe the procedures and protocol, and look at things from an engineering POV on what can be done better. The best part was observing several biomedical tools in action, especially during robotic surgeries. It’s fascinating to think that each of these devices and protocols likely took decades of research and the efforts of hundreds of minds to develop. Seeing them actively in use to save lives makes me appreciate the efforts, time, and dedication put in by medical professionals, engineers, researchers, and policy makers involved in bringing these concepts to reality and in use.