Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

Duke University

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Erik V Mukerjee

Amanda Randles

Jane A Leopold

William J Benett

David Soscia

A stent apparatus, system, and method that senses wall shear stress by measuring fluid flow at localized areas within the stent, that processes measured information through an integrated circuit, and selectively sends power to mechanically controllable stent surfaces which results in localized geometric changes. In various embodiments the stent apparatus, system, and method sends data to outside the body in real time.

Preventing stent failure using adaptive shear responsive endovascular implant

The present disclosure relates to a funnel apparatus for channeling cells onto a plurality of distinct, closely spaced regions of a seeding surface. The funnel apparatus has a body portion having an upper surface and a lower surface. The body portion forms a plurality of flow paths, at least one of which is shaped to have a decreasing cross-sectional area from the upper surface to the lower surface. The flow paths are formed at the lower surface to enable cells deposited into the flow paths at the upper surface of the funnel apparatus to be channeled into a plurality of distinct, closely spaced regions on the seeding surface positioned adjacent the lower surface.

Funnel for localizing biological cell placement and arrangement

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Livermore, CA, United States of America

Erik V Mukerjee