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SUMMARY:Meet Dr Frankenstein
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ronald Dekker\, TU Eindhoven\nMicro-fabricated devices a
 re finding their way to the frontend of medical equipment\, where they are
  the interface between body\, or in general living tissue\, and machine. T
 hey enable better and cheaper diagnostic equipment\, they add ”eyes and 
 ears” to minimally invasive instruments such as laparoscopic instruments
  and catheters\, they allow for un-obtrusive monitoring of body functions\
 , they add functionality to implants\, and they enable the development of 
 better and personalized medicines.\n\nIt is the job of the engineer to mat
 ch the hard and inorganic world of micro-fabrication with the “soft worl
 d” of tissues and living organisms. Micro-fabricated devices are therefo
 re adopting features from the living world such as curved surfaces\, flexi
 bility\, stretchability and biocompatibility. In Organ on Chip devices liv
 ing cells are even part of the device itself. It is even likely that in th
 e future living cells will be building block of micro-chips resulting in 
 “Living Chips!”\n\nBio: Ronald Dekker received his MSc in Electrical E
 ngineering from the Technical University of Eindhoven and his PhD from the
  Technical University of Delft. He joined Philips Research in 1988 where h
 e worked on the development of RF technologies for mobile communication. S
 ince 2000 his focus shifted to the integration of complex electronic senso
 r functionality on the tip of the smallest minimal invasive instruments su
 ch as catheters and guide-wires.  In 2007 he was appointed part time prof
 essor at the Technical University of Delft with a focus on Organ-on-Chip d
 evices. He published in leading Journals and conferences and holds in exce
 ss of 55 patents.
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