Prof. Shuvo Roy
Director, Biomedical Microdevices Lab, UCSF
November 1, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room
Host: John Huggins
Recent progress in microelectromechanical systems - the microelectronics, microfabrication and micromachining technologies known collectively as MEMS - is being applied to biomedical applications and has become a new field of research unto itself, known as BioMEMS. The technology is originally based upon the same technology that has been used to make computer chips ever more powerful and less expensive. MEMS technology has enabled low-cost, high-functionality devices in some commonly used areas, such as inexpensive printer cartridges for ink jet printing and chip-based accelerometers responsible for deployment of automotive airbags. BioMEMS applies these technologies and concepts to diverse areas in biomedical research and clinical medicine. BioMEMS is an enabling technology for ever-greater functionality and cost reduction in smaller devices for improved medical diagnostics and therapies.
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