Automated Nanofiber Vascular Fabrication Device
January 1, 2009Oregon Biomedical Engineering Institute (OBEI) Engineering, 2008-09
Liaison(s): Kenton Gregory, Kathy McKenna, Teresa Pineda ’06, Rebecca Sarao, Ping-Cheng Wu
Advisor(s): Elizabeth Orwin
Students(s): Lucia Cheung (TL-F), Masanori Honda (F), Benyue Liu (F), Benjamin Taborsky (TL-S), Alex Young (S), Clark Zhang (S)
The team’s goal is to automate the electrospinning process used at OBEI to create artificial blood vessels for vascular grafts. The team has designed a state-of-the-art system and is using LabVIEW to integrate and control all of its components. The final product will include a user friendly GUI designed to make it useful with very little training for technicians or experimentalists.