Johns Hopkins University’s FFUel accelerator program held demo day for its first cohort Tuesday night, allowing our team to pitch at the Fast ForwardU Homewood space. Read more. 

Ithemba discusses our mission, and how FFU has helped us reach important milestones this year. "Ithemba means hope in Zulu, and we aim to give all women hope for a chance to fight breast cancer.” Read more.

Ithemba is excited to have been selected for a new accelerator program at FastForward U, the center for student innovation and entrepreneurship for Johns Hopkins University. Read more.

May 2019 article in Tech Crunch titled "These Johns Hopkins students are slashing breast cancer biopsy costs: The technology could save thousands of women's lives in emerging markets". Read more.

The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize recognizes young inventors who have dedicated themselves to solving global problems. Read more. 
 

Read our published article entitled Reusable Core Needle Biopsy Device for Low-Resource Settings here  from the October 2018 meeting proceedings.  

Ithemba team members attended the 2018 BMES Annual Meeting and presented our work entitled, "Design, Development and Evaluation of a Core Needle Biopsy Device Towards Reducing the Risk of Contamination in Low-Resource Settings"