Shuvo Roy's Profile

Shuvo Roy has a PhD in electrical engineering but his experimental handiwork may give the world its first implantable artificial kidney, a potential alternative to dialysis and transplants for patients with end-stage kidney failure.

The bioengineering specialist of Indian origin at the University of California, San Francisco, has demonstrated the feasibility of an implantable kidney in animals, and hopes to refine the coffee cup-sized prototype for clinical trials in humans in about five years.

Shuvo Roy's Profile :

Assistant Staff

Department of Biomedical Engineering (ND20)                        
Lerner Research Institute
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
Telephone: (216) 445-3243

Fax : (216) 444-9198

roys@ccf.org

Area of general research interest:

Development of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology for biomedical applications - BioMEMS.

Current program:

•BioMEMS Laboratory

•Ohio MEMSnet

•Microfabricated diaphragms for fiber optic pressure sensors

•Silicon carbide as a biocompatible material

Technical Staff :
•Anna Dubnisheva, M.S.
•Illya Gordon, B.S.
•Matt Johnston, Ph.D.
•Tao Pan, Ph.D.

Graduate Students:
•Chaitanya Chandrana, Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland, OH
•Eun Jung Kim , Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland, OH

•Pulak Nath, Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland, OH

•Ross Smith, Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH

Collaborators:

•Edward Benzel, M.D., Dept. of Neurolog. Surg., CCF

•Tejal Desai, Ph.D., Boston Univ., Boston, MA

•William Fissell, M.D., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

•Aaron Fleischman, Ph.D., Dept. of Biomed. Eng., CCF

•Derek Hansford, Ph.D., The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

•Dov Hazony, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH

•Geoffrey Lockwood, Ph.D., Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., Canada

•Mehran Mehregany, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH

•Ronald Midura, Ph.D., Dept. of Biomed. Eng., CCF

•George Muschler, M.D., Dept. of Biomed. Eng., CCF

•Kenneth Ouriel, M.D., Dept. of Neurolog. Surg., CCF

•D. Geoffrey Vince, Ph.D., Dept. of Biomed. Eng., CCF

•Maciej Zborowski, Ph.D., Dept. of Biomed. Eng., CCF

•Christian Zorman, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH