Your biomedical implants harvest enough energy from your heartbeat to power a pacemaker
Canan Dagdeviren appeared on a list of Forbes magazine as one of the young scientists who are changing the world.
Born in Istanbul, with a long history of winning awards. She was the brightest student in her Physics Engineering degree studies.
She is currently an associate researcher at the David H Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, one of the most important centers in the world.
Bio-integrated Electronic Devices
On the website of the Turkish researcher a reproduction of the Vitruvian Man can be found with the different spots where her devices can be applied, to show the many uses that bioelectronics open up for medicine.
The power generated by the movements of our organs, can be gathered, stored and used in devices such as a pacemaker, thus avoiding the physical exhaustion involved in the patient having to change the device every few years.
Dagdeviren is very clear where her research is heading; she wants «life to be more comfortable and of a higher quality than before.»
