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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University College London
Active books: the design of an implantable stimulator that minimizes cable count using integrated circuits very close to electrodes.
The research described is a collaboration with the Tyndall National Institute, Cork and the University of Freiburg, Germany, funded by EPSRC (EP/F009593/1, £489,034, PI: Demosthenous) pioneering the so-called “Active Books”, the world’s first stimulator that could be directly implanted in the human spinal canal for multi-functional restoration after spinal cord injury. The work described was extensively covered by international media (e.g., http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11814554) and was featured in the 2010/11 EPSRC Annual Report. A modified version of the stimulator is being used by a leading spinal-cord clinical research group (Prof. Gregoire Courtine, EPFL, Switzerland), who will jointly commercialize the technology with UCL.
