This is Team HEMD: Harvesting Energy for Medical Devices

OUR MISSION

We aim to identify, develop, and design an ingestible medical device that harvests mechanical and chemical energy from the gastrointestinal tract in order to power a capsule for a medical application. Harvesting energy from within the body prolongs the lifetime of the capsule and eliminates the reliance on using potentially dangerous lithium batteries within the body in ingestible capsules, allowing for an expansion of applications and use. By developing our device for long-term use, we aim to power real-time diagnoses, monitoring, or treatment of gastrointestinal diseases like IBS and IBD.

ABOUT US

We are an undergraduate research team, consisting of students in bioengineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, and chemistry in the Gemstone Honors Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. We are motivated by technology as a means of improvement in medical devices, as we desire to improve the state of ingestible capsules as they are to power more advanced and beneficial uses. We are grateful to have the expertise and support of Dr. Reza Ghodssi of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices here at the University of Maryland, whose research spans MEMS sensors and actuators in micro-nano-bioengineering, as well as Ms. Isabella Baxter, our team librarian.

YOUR SUPPORT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

We need your help in funding our research so that we can effectively design, prototype, and test in order to accomplish our mission and contribute to the field of ingestible medical device research.  

CONTACT US

@teamhemd on Instagram or visit our website: Team HEMD - Home 

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