dialysis – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu Building business on innovation Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:17:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/favicon-blue_1.png dialysis – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu 32 32 UF Researchers Engineer New Membrane for At-Home, Overnight Dialysis https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wearable-dialysis-filter/ Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://scaddev1.com/wearable-dialysis-filter/ Almost 750,000 people per year undergo kidney failure in the U.S., according to statistics from the University of California San Francisco. For those who cannot receive a transplant, dialysis — mechanical filtering of blood — is the most common treatment.

It’s expensive. It’s time consuming. And it’s inconvenient. Patients have to sit or lie down, connected to a machine.

University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineering department researchers Saeed Moghaddam, professor, and Richard Rode, postdoc, have discovered a way to make a wearable filter for at-home, overnight dialysis.

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