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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 26, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Damien Rodger, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the USC Eye Institute
Talk Title: Biomedical Microdevices for Use in Ophthalmology and Spinal Cord Injury
Series: Seminars in Engineering, Neuroscience & Health (ENH)
Abstract: The problems of outer retinal degeneration (ORD) and spinal cord injury (SCI) affect millions of people worldwide, often resulting in devastating blindess and para- or quadriplegia that strongly impair a person's activities of daily living and impact their level of happiness. to help thwart the effects of these diseases, novel flexible microtechnologies have been developed for functional electrical stimulation and recording in retinal and spinal cord prosthetics. Topics to be discussed include a revolutionary dual-metal-layer micro-electrode array fabrication scheme as well as high-density scalable packaging efficacy of these arrays in stimulating the neural targets and demonstrate their biostability. In addition, new devices are being investigated for intraocular pressure sensing as well as for ophthalmic patch grafts, which will briefly be discussed.
Host: Stanley Yamashiro, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
