A graduate team at McMaster University in Canada have won the James Dyson Award for their portable skin cancer detector, sKan. The device uses a pad of 16 thermistors to track the increase in skin temperature following a cold shock to a potentially cancerous patch of skin caused by an ice pack. In this case, the researchers used the sensor to detect changes in skin temperature, which they then compared with those recorded on other patients who had been exposed to the same treatment. The prize comes with an investment of $40,000 in sKan, which the team said would help them create a more advanced prototype to use in pre-clinical testing.
A graduate team at McMaster University in Canada have won the James Dyson Award for their portable skin cancer detector, sKan. The device uses a pad of 16 thermistors to track the increase in skin temperature following a cold shock to a potentially cancerous patch of skin caused by an ice pack. The device then produces a heat map that can be used to determine the presence of melanoma. The prize comes with an investment of $40,000 in sKan, which the team said would help them create a more advanced prototype to use in pre-clinical testing.