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Medical Devices and Robotics

Press Releases

Portable Device Quickly Detects Early Alzheimer's

January 16, 2008 — The latest medications can delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease, but none are able to reverse its devastating effects. A new device developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University is due to reach the market in 2008 allowing patients to take a brief, inexpensive test that could be administered as part of a routine yearly checkup at a doctor's office to detect mild cognitive impairment — often the earliest stage of Alzheimer's.

Biomedical Shape-Memory Polymers Developed
Applications for circulatory, nervous and skeletal systems

January 3, 2008 — Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing unique polymers to open blocked arteries, probe neurons in the brain and engineer a tougher spine. These shape-memory polymers can be temporarily stretched or compressed into forms several times larger or smaller than their final shape. Then heat, light or the local chemical environment triggers a transformation into their permanent shape.

Sensor Necklace Aims to Increase Drug Compliance

March 5, 2008 — Researchers now have a possible solution for the one in three adults who fail to take their medicines as prescribed by their doctors, as well as for everyone else who occasionally forgets: a sensor necklace that records the exact time and date when specially-designed pills are swallowed, and reminds the user if any doses are being missed. Studies show that drug noncompliance costs the country billions of dollars each year as a result of re-hospitalization, complications, disease progression and even death.

Vest May Help Understand Causes of Asthma Attacks
Device continuously monitors air around persons prone to asthma

January 22, 2008 — Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a sensor system that continuously monitors the air around persons prone to asthma attacks. Worn in the pockets of a vest, the new system could help researchers understand the causes of asthma attacks. "We are investigating whether we can go back after an asthma attack and see what was going on environmentally when the attack started," said Charlene Bayer.

Fast AFM Probes Simultaneously Measure Topography, Adhesion, Stiffness, Elasticity And Viscosity

April 15, 2008 — New research demonstrates that novel probe technology based on flexible membranes can replace conventional atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilevers for applications such as fast topographic imaging, quantitative material characterization and single molecule mechanics measurements. In collaboration with Cheng Zhu, Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Professor Degertekin is using the probe to measure the force between two interacting biological molecules and unbinding forces between two molecules.

Georgia Tech part of multi-university center developing computer-aided design environment

August 12, 2007 — Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) award to participate in a multi-university research center that will develop a computer-aided design (CAD) environment for micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS). The new research center is a public/private partnership to be called the Investigate Multi-physics Modeling and Performance Assessment-driven Characterization and Computation Technology (IMPACT) Center for Advancement of MEMS/NEMS VLSI.

Robot Fetches Objects With Just a Point and a Click

March 19, 2008 — A team of researchers led by Charlie Kemp, director of the Center for Healthcare Robotics in the Health Systems Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology, have found a way to instruct a robot to find and deliver an item it may have never seen before using a more direct manner of communication — a laser pointer.

Tech Offers First Interdisciplinary Robotics Ph.D.

February 8, 2008 — The Colleges of Computing and Engineering at Georgia Tech announced the nation's first interdisciplinary doctoral degree in robotics to be offered at Georgia Tech. The program was developed through Georgia Tech's Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. Reaching across disciplines and drawing from curricula in computer science, electrical and computer engineering, aerospace, biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering, the doctoral degree is designed to educate a new breed of multidisciplinary researchers who will enter the market best prepared to chart a new course for robotics in the US.

Contact for Medical Device Technologies at Georgia Tech:

Ann Schmierer, Ph.D
Georgia Institute of Technology
Strategic Partners Office
Bioscience Corporate LiaisonEmail
Phone: (404) 385-2259