HDU Advisory Board Member Fokko P. Wieringa is interviewed in this article from Innovation Origins on the development of a portable dialysis device to a fully implantable artificial organ. Research by imec at Holst Centre and the Dutch Kidney Foundation opens the door to new solutions.
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“If we realize a roadmap for international cooperation as we did in the [computer] chip industry, then you will have a usable implantable artificial kidney within fifteen years or so,” Wieringa predicts.
SOURCE: Innovation Origins
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