Brief Description
MediFuel is the first tiny, Biological Fuel Cell (BFC) Company solving the power problem of the next generation of implantable medical devices – a market which is projected to reach over a billion dollars. The company's technology is a GlucoCell ™ , a MEMS based power chip that harnesses your own body’s natural energy resource – glucose and converts it into usable electrical energy. The GlucoCell ™ has the potential to provide self-sustaining device operation at a fraction of the cost and at 1/100th the size of competing battery technologies. The company’s mission is to apply it’s technology to enable drug delivery chips, BioMEMS sensors and other new medical devices for pain therapy, cancer therapy, and long-term diagnostics of critical bodily functions. MediFuel assembled a multidisciplinary team of professionals from all areas including medicine, scientific research, engineering, and business.
Timeline
- 2003. Company founded
Inventors
Chiao Mu, Kien-Bang Lam, Liwei Lin