Jagannath Padmanabhan, PhD- Stanford University- Increasing the Lifespan of Biomedical Devices
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
For almost 10 years now, Jagannath Padmanabhan has been conducting interdisciplinary biomedical research focused on how our bodies react to biomedical devices, why these devices are almost always ultimately rejected, and the role of mechanical forces in the rejection process.
More recently, Padmanabhan has been working as a post-doctoral research fellow in the surgery department at the Stanford School of Medicine, where he collaborates with surgeons to collect a variety of biomedical implant devices that have been rejected by and removed from the human body. By studying the cells on these devices, the team at Stanford is gaining insight into the types of cells that are involved in the rejection process and how to go about increasing the amount of time before the rejection process sets in.
Among other topics, Padmanabhan discusses the link between wound healing, scar formation, and implant rejection, how the manipulation of implant device surfaces could increase their lifespan in the human body, and the role of mechanical stimulation in accelerating the rejection process. Tune in to learn more about his current research and its potential applications in clinical medicine, and reach out to him by email at himjaganpa@standford.edu.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
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| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | My guest today is Jugginov-Mun. He's a PhD and a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Jeffrey Gertner's laboratory in the Department of Surgery at |
| 0:41.1 | Stanford University. He is a bioengineer by training PhD from Yale University in 2016 and we've been talking about is research interests which deal with the interface of bioengineering surgery and data science and looking at the role of |
| 0:54.5 | mechanical implant rejection, which we'll get into. So Jagan, how you doing |
| 1:00.9 | today? I'm doing well. Thank you, Richard. Thanks for having me on the show and before we start I would like to say that I've listened to many episodes of the podcast seasons and I've really enjoyed them. |
| 1:13.0 | Very informative. |
| 1:14.3 | So congratulations to you and your team for putting together a good show. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, no problem. |
| 1:20.0 | So tell me about your current research, you know, what is your focus right now and let's you know boil it down to a simple version of it and then we'll start getting into questions about it. |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah, yeah, I'd be happy to. As you just said, I work as a postdoctoral research fellow and |
| 1:36.1 | plastic surgery here at Stanford. So my research interests are basically focused on biomaterial tissue interaction and novel |
| 1:46.5 | biomaterial development. As you said, my previous graduate studies have been at Cornell |
| 1:52.2 | and Yale University. |
| 1:54.0 | So for the past almost 10 years now, |
| 1:56.6 | I've been doing interdisciplinary biopomedical research |
| 1:59.8 | focused on how our body reacts to biomedical devices and especially in particular the role of |
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