Cristian Galbiati, Princeton University (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Cristian Galbiati, Princeton University

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While in lockdown for the COVID-19 virus in Milan, Italy, Cristiano Galbiati, a professor of physics at Princeton University, recognized the need for additional ventilators and received government permission to develop a prototype. Six weeks later, after round-the-clock work by physicists and engineers from nine countries, his ventilator secured FDA approval. Production starts this week, with an expected initial run of 50 ventilators per day.

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C. Todd Reichart, Princeton University

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