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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: News Articles => Topic started by: okarol on October 25, 2007, 02:23:32 PM
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Roy awarded $3.2M to develop MEMS-based artificial kidney
Shuvo Roy and his team at the Cleveland Clinic are using MEMS to create a bioartificial kidney.
October 25, 2007 -- The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded Cleveland Clinic researcher Shuvo Roy a $3.2 million, three-year grant to develop a MEMS-based bioartificial kidney that can be used instead of dialysis.
Roy and his team are using MEMS technology to create an implantable, self-regulating bioartificial kidney that will filter toxins and absorb necessary salts and water like human kidneys. The team includes physicians and engineers from the Lerner Research Institute's Department of Biomedical Engineering and Cleveland Clinic's Department of Nephrology.
"We are bringing together the necessary multidisciplinary expertise to focus on critical technical hurdles to develop an implantable hemofilter and cell bioreactor, which are the integral components of the bioartificial kidney," Roy said in a news release.
More than 50 million dialysis procedures are performed annually in the United States, according to data from the United States Renal Data System. The treatment of choice, kidney transplant, is severely limited by scarcity of donor organs. Only 25 percent of patients on the waiting list for a transplant survive long enough to receive a kidney.
An implantable bioartificial kidney could substitute for kidney transplantation, giving giving hope, independence and mobility to more than 300,000 patients who now need to come into a center three times a week for dialysis.
Roy's grant is one of four awarded by NIBIB's Quantum Grants program.
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http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=310191&p=109
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Aloha Beth was having a small rant the other day asking why hadn't anyone invented an artificial kidney that could be implanted. I was reading this article to her and now she wants to contact them to offer me as a test dummy!! Well, she didn't say "dummy" :rofl; Bring it on Cleveland Clinic!! We are all impatiently waiting!
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Can you save me a spot in that line behind you Paris? :popcorn;
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Goofynina, I love you so much, we will stand side by side in line waiting for the artificial kidney! I even have family in Ohio, so we have a place to stay ( and it is the rich side of the family!).
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I'm in line too!!!!!!!!!!!!! :popcorn;
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DaVita would lose too much money. They will buy the guy off. 3.2 million isn't anything compared to what KT can pay him for NOT producing it.
Why do you think we don't have cars that can go 200 miles per gallon. The Oil Companies would lose too much money.
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I'm in line too! But I'll be first since I'm already in Ohio! :rofl;
DaVita would lose too much money. They will buy the guy off. 3.2 million isn't anything compared to what KT can pay him for NOT producing it.
Why do you think we don't have cars that can go 200 miles per gallon. The Oil Companies would lose too much money.
Well, I would hope this guy has enough desire to help other people and won't even entertain the notion if Davita tried to pay him off!