- Title of project: DEVELOPMENT OF WEARABLE KIDNEY USING NANOMATERIALS
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- Description: The human body cannot function without clearance of toxins and metabolic products from the bloodstream. Hence, patients with end-stage liver and kidney disease as well as acute organ failure require blood-purification techniques or organ transplant. Due to the limited availability of suitable organ donors and the health of potential recipients, millions of patients worldwide receive regular hemodialysis (HD) treatments. The existing HD process requires patients to be connected to a large machine for usually four hours three times a week primarily in clinics. The current dialysis process has remained relatively unchanged for decades; only incremental improvements have been made through components and system engineering. Significant effort has been made to introduce a portable or wearable artificial kidney; however, the existing designs utilize the same process and conventional but miniaturized components. We have recently developed nanoengineered membranes that promise to transform dialysis systems reducing their size from a large cabinet to a device that can fit in palm of hand. We are currently in the system design, fabrication and testing stage and can benefit from talented students with great interest in nanoscience, microfluidic, multiphase flow and flow systems engineering.
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- How to apply: Send your resume to Dr. Moghaddam
- Faculty contact/webpage: Dr. Saeed Moghaddam, saeedmog@ufl.edu, http://www2.mae.ufl.edu/saeedmog/
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