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Mater Sci Nanotechnol 2017
Volume 1 Issue 3
Magnetic Materials 2017
Page 89
October 09-10, 2017 London, UK
International Conference on
Magnetic materials for wireless actuation in
biomedicine
Arianna Menciassi
The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
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histalkintroducesthekeyaspectsofmagneticactuationfor
medical devices in theminiature scale, based on the author
experience on robotics for minimally invasive intervention,
targeted therapy, personalized medicine and bionic artificial
organs. The quest for miniaturization and natural access to
the targeted pathologies led to the development of diagnostic
and therapeutic tools to be delivered with an endoluminal
and transluminal approach - such as endoscopic capsules
- and to be controlled and propelled by remote operation
schemes from outside. The quest for targeted therapy has
recently opened new opportunities for robotic technologies,
which are used more and more as controllers for the delivery
of drugs embedded in nanobiotech vectors and as solutions
for making therapy really localized in the area of interest,
thus enabling on-demand release kinetics and eliminating (or
strongly limiting) side effects. After a description of magnetic
solutions developed by the authors’ group for actuating,
locomoting and triggering mechanisms to be employed in
medical devices, the talk will focus on recent applications
of magnetic control. Examples range from magnetic control
and triggering for drug delivery capsules to be used in the
spine, to magnetic activation mechanisms for artificial organs
(i.e. urinary sphincters or artificial pancreas), and magnetic
microfilms manipulation for personalized therapy and lab-
on-chip technologies.
arianna.menciassi@santannapisa.itMaterials Science and Nanotechnology