Before earning a doctorate at MIT, Danielle Zurovcik, SM ’07, PhD ’12, had never designed or developed a medical device. But her experience in the Precision Engineering Research Group, led by Professor Alex Slocum ’82, SM ’83, PhD ’85, led her to develop a simplified negative-pressure wound therapy device that would later become known as the Wound-Pump.
“I realized that I was passionate about medical devices. I liked the Wound-Pump because we were able to put it on patients faster than a technology that was highly invasive,” she says.
