John Santini is an entrepreneur and scientist with over a decade of industrial and academic experience in drug delivery. He has given numerous invited lectures on the use of microtechnology in healthcare and has authored over 60 issued/pending patents and several technical papers. In 2002, Dr. Santini was honored by Technology Review Magazine as one of the Top 100 Young Innovators in the world. He is also a member of the Governing Council of the MEMS Industry Group, a national trade organization dedicated to the advancement and commercialization of MEMS technology in the United States.
Prior to founding MicroCHIPS, he obtained his PhD in chemical engineering from MIT as a National Science Foundation Fellow. Dr. Santini also graduated with a BSE in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.
Passive devices do not have wireless telemetry, they do not have batteries, they don't have chips. It's the idea of using reservoirs as a control release vehicle but controlling release by what you put in those reservoirs. So envision this, an orthopedic implant for example, a hip, a knee, a denta...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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