The development of implantable sensors for chronic use

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• Professor Simon Malpas, Director of the Implantable Devices Group, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, New Zealand
• Monday 24 September 2018, 11:00-12:00
• Room 611 (Gabor Seminar Room), Level 6, EEE Department.

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It’s been over 300 years since we have begun to measure pressure in the cardiovascular system and various regions around the body. Despite extensive evidence that pressure is critically important in the brain, lungs and regions of the vascular system for exchange, the only variable measured chronically is arterial pressure. There is a lack of implantable devices that provide accurate long term measurement of pressure. This seminar will present the challenges in this development covering design constraints, market analysis and approaches.

Bio:Simon Malpas is Professor of Physiology and Bioengineering and Director of the Implantable Devices Group at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a graduate of Victoria University and the University of Otago and did postdoctoral research in Japan, UK and Australia before returning to New Zealand in 1996 to an academic position in the Department of Physiology. His main research interest is implantable medical devices and he has been heavily involved in the commercialisation of research from Universities over the past 15 years. Prof. Malpas’s long term collaboration with David Budgett lead to the development of implantable devices for monitoring neural signals. This research was later commercialised through the spin-out company, Telemetry Research. In 2012 Telemetry Research merged with Millar Instruments of Houston, Texas, where Simon is a Chief Scientific Officer. Millar Instruments maintains a strong research and development programme which collaborates with the Auckland Bioengineering Institute’s research team to produce novel telemetry devices for scientific research. The telemetry systems developed from these research programmes have been exported to over 30 countries and led to a rapid growth in revenue.

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