Jorge Fernandes, INESC-ID researcher in the area of Nano-Electronic Circuits and Systems, and CMU Portugal Faculty member at Instituto Superior Técnico, has recently participated in an episode of the Antena 1 podcast, “90 Segundos de Ciência” (“90 Seconds of Science”). 

The focus, during the one minute and half allowed, was the CMU Portugal’s Exploratory Research project “mm-Size Stimulator Implants”, which aims to create integrated circuits with low energy consumption for electrical stimulation therapies and to develop a revolutionary new generation of microelectronic implants. 

These implants are intended to be completely battery-free, eliminating the need for a titanium capsule, and so small that can comfortably be applied under the patient’s skin. 

With a new range of autonomous and biocompatible implants such as these, Jorge Fernandes believes that it “can revolutionise medical practice and change the use of therapies that are typically administered through medication, replacing them with others that interact with the nervous system through electrical stimulation”. 

Listen to the episode (in PT) here