The Smallest Tubes in the World: Micro-Fabrication of Hermetic Drug Capsules To Alleviate Macular Degeneration Drug delivery methods for treating macular degeneration are invasive, unpleasant, and burdensome. In people with this disease,…
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Getting the Sweat Out
Getting the sweat out Recently, I got to be part of a really cool project to develop a system for recovering sweat from a body patch. The way it works is an…
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Soft Exos will allow people to wallk again
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Lyophilized Drug Container Patent
Happy this patent was granted for work I did for Bayer while at Cambridge Consultants. Vial Reconstitution device aids the patient in preparing their medication for IV infusion. Great work by the…
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Micro Tablets for Drug Delivery
Fabrication and Lyophilization of Micro-Tablets Sometimes drugs need to be delivered in very small quantities via implants. A company I work for, On Demand (a spin out of MicroChips Biotech and MIT),…
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Flex Circuit Commutator
The Problem Commutators allow electrical signals and power to transfer between a stationary base and a rotational unit. This is done using what is known as a slip-ring (see the medical slip…
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NanoWalker Robot
The NanoWalker micro-robotics The NanoWalker Project is a large-scale effort, spanning several years, headed by Sylvain Martel of École Polytechnique of Montreal in conjunction with BioInstrumentation Lab at MIT. The goal of the…
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Medical Commutator
The Problem Scientists try to intrude as little as possible in an animal’s daily activities when they study their brain activity. Ideally, the animal would have free range of motion but that…
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Swarm Robotic Forklift
The problem The Navy has many vessels compactly stowed below deck on their larger ships. Some of them are large, heavy, and bulky. They are tough to navigate to the ship’s surface…
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Machine Design with SolidWorks
ME240 Machine Design With SolidWorks Machine design; the study of the fundamentals of using SolidWorks. Solving engineering problems via solid modeling and simulation. Prerequisites: ME106, MA120 At this time, I am an adjunct…