Center for Implantable Devices continues legacy of founding faculty

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. William Hillenbrand’s then anonymous donation of $500,000 to establish biomedical engineering research at Purdue. That initial seed investment brought us Drs. Leslie Geddes, Willis Tacker, Joe Bourland, and Charles Babbs to Purdue who put Purdue BME on the map with more than 30 inventions, many of which focused on implantable electronic devices including and energy-efficient implantable defibrillator and the automatic pacemaker.

Established in 2010, the Center for Implantable Devices (CID) established at Purdue University strives to continue this legacy of our founding faculty who focused on the translation of their applied research for real clinical impact. Over the past several years, CID emerged as the new powerhouse in bioinstrumentation with substantial extramural support from NIH, DARPA, Cook, Samsung, and others. With a renewed institutional commitment to excellence in biomedical instrumentation research at Purdue BME, we are expanding our capability with the focused hiring of a senior faculty in bioinstrumentation. We are uniquely positioned with a network of stellar clinical collaborators at Indiana University School of Medicine, Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine, and the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine. With ongoing research on clinical-needs driven projects including closed-loop peripheral neuromodulation, smart catheter for intraventricular hemorrhage and hydrocephalus, stretchable epicardial sensors for cardiac electrophysiology, automatic drug delivery system for opioid overdose, and many others, CID at Purdue BME is well-poised to reach the pinnacle of excellence at clinical scale for the future of biomedicine.

 

implantable ocular pressure sensor

electrical stimulation gastroparesis