A graduate team at McMaster University in Canada have won the Shivad Bhavsar 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.
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.