University College Dublin

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Children's Medical Center Corporation

Eoin O'Cearbhaill

Seamus Morris

Nicky Bertollo

Jeffrey Michael Karp

Pedro J Del Nido

Nikolay V Vasilyev

Yuhan Lee

Veaceslav Arabagi

Peter E Hammer

Haruo Yamauchi

Frank J Dillon

Douglas P Perrin

Eric N Feins

Kevin Krieger

Frank Dillon

A stabilisation system for securing a medical device such as a catheter to tissue, in particular skin, the stabilisation system comprising a main body having a first section and a second section displaceable relative to one another to translate the system between an undeployed state and a deployed state, each section including an array of microneedles extending from a tissue contacting surface of the body and which penetrate the skin in response to the above displacement, the stabilisation system further comprising a closure member displaceable between an open position exposing a retention zone on the body and a closed position at least partially occluding the retention zone, within which retention zone the catheter or other medical device may be captured.

Microneedle based stabilisation system for medical devices

An oral appliance () comprising a sensing arrangement () disposed in proximity to at least one part of a facial muscle complex of a user. A method of controlling the oral appliance () comprising sensing, with the sensing arrangement (), the at least one part of the facial muscle complex being brought towards the sensing arrangement; and in response to sensing the at least one part of the facial muscle complex being brought towards the sensing arrangement (), controlling the oral appliance () to perform an action. An external processing unit () is arranged to interact with the oral appliance () in response to the oral appliance () performing the action.

Oral appliance

The present invention provides a tissue anchor and a system and method employing same, the anchors including a body having a first section and a second section reversibly engagable with one another, each section including a plurality of barbs in the form of microneedles projecting from the underside therefore, the barbs on one section being inclined towards barbs on the other section, such that tissue may be captured and deformed between the barbs through displacement of the first section relative to the second section in order to achieve robust retention of the tissue anchor at a deployment site.

Tissue anchor

An implantable, autonomously growing medical device is disclosed. The device may have an outer, braided outer element that holds an inner core. Degradation and/or softening of the inner core permits the outer element to elongate, allowing the device to grow with surrounding tissue. The growth profile of the medical device can be controlled by altering the shape/material/cure conditions of the inner core, as well as the geometry of the outer element.

Autonomously growing implantable device

Growing community of inventors

County Dublin, Ireland

Eoin O'Cearbhaill