{"id":31102,"date":"2026-09-02T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/engineering\/?p=31102"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:43:20","slug":"medical-device-company-founded-by-former-ceas-dean-highlighted-in-the-mbj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/engineering\/medical-device-company-founded-by-former-ceas-dean-highlighted-in-the-mbj\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical device company founded by former College of Engineering dean highlighted in the MBJ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Milwaukee Business Journal recently published a story on NovaScan, a Chicago-based company founded by William Gregory, a professor emerit and dean of the UWM College of Engineering &amp; Applied Science in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/novascaninc.com\/\">NovaScan Inc.<\/a> has raised more than $3 million ahead of launching its MarginScan cancer detection device next year. The product could make finding any residue breast cancer cells after surgery immediate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gregory has been researching the electrical properties of materials for more than 35 years and has been involved in other start-up companies.\u00a0In 2022, he and NovaScan CEO Craig Davis were recognized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisys.org\/2022\/08\/10\/wisys-names-novascan-leaders-craig-davis-and-william-gregory-2022-innovators-of-the-year\/\">WiSys as Innovators of the Year<\/a>. WiSys handled UWM intellectual property at UWM before the establishment of the UWM Research Foundation. 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