Penn Bioengineering

A pacemaker battery replacement can mean another surgery, another recovery and another round of risks for patients.

For their Senior Design project, Team Cardion asked a powerful question: What if a pacemaker could draw energy from the motion of the heart itself?

Anjali Shukla (BE’26), Nicholas “Nico” Manuto (BE’26), Andrea Perez Pizarro (BE’26), Cesar Ruiz de Castilla (BE’26) and Ella Nevo (BE’26) designed an implantable energy-harvesting pacemaker system and built a mechatronic heart model to test it.

Their ambitious, patient-centered work earned the Technology and Innovation Prize at this year’s Penn Engineering Senior Design Competition.

Read the BE Blog story: https://bit.ly/4dyWoB6

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