Here are five key points:
1. Patent attorney Steven Lisa established the grant after St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and Barrow Neurological Institute specialists treated his father’s brain cancer.
2. The multi-year grant funds residents’ brain and spine research.
3. In 2015, research projects included testing a wrist device tracking patients post-brain surgery and developing a prototyping laboratory for new medical device design.
4. The ASU law students serve as legal counsel for the residents’ in drafting provisional patent applications.
5. ASU law faculty members and Barrow neurosurgeons oversee the program, and assist the law students and residents.
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