Ellen Roche

This article is about the biomedical engineer. For the Brazilian model, see Ellen Rocche.

Ellen Roche is an Irish biomedical engineer and Associate Professor at MIT in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science.[1] She has contributed to heart failure prevention with her inventions, the Harvard Ventricular Assist Device (HarVAD),[2] a soft-robotic sleeve device[3] that goes around the heart, squeezing and twisting it to maintain the heart’s functionality,[4] and Therepi,[5] a reservoir that attaches directly to damaged heart tissue.

  1. ^ "School of Engineering first quarter 2019 awards | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering". meche.mit.edu. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  2. ^ Shaw, Jonathan (18 January 2017). "A Robotic Fix for Heart Failure". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  3. ^ Payne, Christopher J.; Wamala, Isaac; Abah, Colette; Thalhofer, Thomas; Saeed, Mossab; Bautista-Salinas, Daniel; Horvath, Markus A.; Vasilyev, Nikolay V.; Roche, Ellen T.; Pigula, Frank A.; Walsh, Conor J. (30 May 2017). "An Implantable Extracardiac Soft Robotic Device for the Failing Heart: Mechanical Coupling and Synchronization". Soft Robotics. 4 (3): 241–250. doi:10.1089/soro.2016.0076. ISSN 2169-5172. PMID 29182083.
  4. ^ "Heart Sleeve Helps Heart Pump Blood: Interview with Harvard's Ellen Roche |". Medgadget. 24 March 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  5. ^ Whyte, William; Roche, Ellen T.; Varela, Claudia E.; Mendez, Keegan; Islam, Shahrin; O’Neill, Hugh; Weafer, Fiona; Shirazi, Reyhaneh Neghabat; Weaver, James C.; Vasilyev, Nikolay V.; McHugh, Peter E. (June 2018). "Sustained release of targeted cardiac therapy with a replenishable implanted epicardial reservoir". Nature Biomedical Engineering. 2 (6): 416–428. doi:10.1038/s41551-018-0247-5. ISSN 2157-846X. PMID 31011199. S2CID 47020849.