Using innovative research to drive new opportunities for lung treatments

In 1998, the year that Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google in Silicon Valley, Dr. Gerard Criner was working with a small team of biomedical engineers in a basement outside of San Francisco. The engineers and Criner, founding chair of the Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, were trying to develop tools they hoped would transform the treatment of certain lung diseases. For decades, flexible fiber optic bronchoscopy was the…
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