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CANAN DAĞDEVİREN:

A YOUNG TURKISH

As Mustafa Kemal Atatürk says; SCIENTIST WHO HAS MADE
“We shall take science and knowledge from wherever they are and
each nation will introduce them to their members. Registration and HER MARK IN A SCIENTIFIC
conditions do not apply to science and knowledge”
BREAKTHROUGH IN MEDICINE

Canan Dağdeviren explains her working on a needle-like battery that
introduction to the world of science as can benefit patients with Parkinson’s
follows, “The ‘wearable pacemaker’ disease and other brain diseases. The
that was one of the projects that I was trials with monkeys last week were
involved in during my doctorate term very successful. I am very excited and
is a childhood dream of mine. My
grandfather passed away as a result of hopeful. I lost a dearly beloved aunt
cardiac failure at the age of 28 which I to breast cancer in the recent past. I
find out at the age of 5 and at that age made her a promise. After my brain
I determined that I would be 28 years project I will focus on early detection
old when I realized my dream. Until the of breast cancer. The design of the
age of 28 I wanted to do something tool is practically completed. During
for patients with cardiac problems and this work my greatest support has
worked to this end. Perhaps it is a small been the messages and prayers from
step but I believe that in the future many the beautiful people of my solitary and
application areas will be manifested’. beautiful country. It is motivating to
experience the unifying force of science.
The scientific invention of the ‘wearable
pacemaker’ which puts her on the Awareness for science has increased
Forbes list is a flexible and ultra slim which is wonderful. I endeavor to give
piezoelectrical integrated tool (PZT the support to students that I did not
MEH) which generates and stores have during my years as a student. In
electrical energy with the movements a way I am returning to the past. I am
No: 2 of the heart, lungs and diaphragm. experiencing the joy of being a small
March This material, which is attached to a part of omniscient science with the work
2017 plastic surface compatible with the
ISSN: 2148-953X CANAN DAĞDEVIREN IS A human body, is a hundred times thinner that I have done and will do. I am full of
SUCCESSFUL SCIENTIST serenity for being able to help people I
Chairman WHO HAS REPRESENTED than a strand of hair and can be folded do not know: for me being involved in
Süleyman GÜLER and twisted like paper. A collaborative
OUR COUNTRY ON effort with Arizona University Sarver science means infinite love, passion, the
Editor THE INTERNATIONAL Heart Center successfully tested the true mentor in life. It means unrequited
Taşkın EROĞLU service to mankind. Therefore, the
PLATFORM OF SCIENCE. flexible instrument on sheep, calves
Graphic Designer CANAN DAĞDEVIREN, and pigs whose heart size is similar to reason why something is done is more
Özlem ALTAN DEMİR the human heart. Furthermore, in the important than where it is done. Due to
Gülden KARADENİZ THE INVENTOR OF THE control experiment conducted to prove my work I do not think that I will adopt
WEARABLE CARDIAC compliance with a living metabolism, a sedentary life. As Mustafa Kemal
PACEMAKER HAS it was observed that the muscle cells
İdare Merkezi Atatürk says; We shall take science and
Oğuzlar Mah. 1374 Sok. BEEN PLACED ON THE of mice could grow on the instrument knowledge from wherever they are and
No:2/4 Balgat - ANKARA ’30 UNDER 30’ LIST without problems. The device, which
Tel: 0 312 342 22 45 can maintain its mechanical strength each nation will introduce them to their
Fax: 0312 342 22 46 OF SCIENTISTS OF even when folded and twisted 20 million members. Registration and conditions do
FORBES MAGAZINE, not apply to science and knowledge”
e-posta: bilgi@labmedya.com times, can store energy on a battery
ONE OF THE MOST of 3.8 volts. This technology opens up
Subscriptions PRESTIGIOUS MAGAZINES new doors for technology that is now CANAN DAĞDEVİREN
abone@labmedya.com
PUBLISHED IN THE USA. available in large size, costly without any Graduated from Hacettepe University,
Publication Type DAĞDEVIREN, WHO mechanical proximity to the heart. The Department of Physics Engineering
Local Term fully flexible tool which folds and bends in 2007. In 2009, she completed her
BECAME KNOWN FOR THE like paper can establish a close contact
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH with organs with curved lines. Thus, a graduate studies in Sabancı University
SHE CONDUCTED IN system with high energy efficiency is Materials Science and Engineering
MASSACHUSETTS created that does not limit the movement Program. She was awarded the Fulbright
INSTITUTE OF of organs. Current pacemakers have Ph.D. Scholarship when it was awarded
www.prosigma.net - info@prosigma.net a life span of 5 to 7 years, and if the for the first time in 2009 and began
TECHNOLOGY (MIT) IS
Place of Publication KNOWN AS THE FIRST battery fails, the whole mechanism her Ph.D. in Materials Science and
Başak Matbaacılık ve Tan. Hiz. Ltd. Şti. needs to be replaced with a risky Engineering at the University of Illinois
Anadolu Bulvarı Meka Plaza No:5/15 TURK TO BE AWARDED operation. However with this device, the in Urbana, Champaign (UIUC). During
Gimat / ANKARA YOUNG ACADEMY heart, lungs, or diaphragm produce the
Tel: 0 312 397 16 17 her Ph.D., she worked on flexible and
MEMBERSHIP OF energy needed to operate the tool. The foldable, adherable / wearable electronic
Date of issue HARVARD UNIVERSITY. fact that it is wearable means that it is devices that fall within the scope
March 2017 - Ankara really compatible with the body.
of physics, electronics, chemistry,
In addition to the Labmedya materials, mechanics and medicine
Canan Dağdeviren who made this
significant scientific development and that can be inserted in the body
WHAT IS LABMEDYA ? spoke about her passion for science as and worn on skin. Currently, she is a
www.labmedya.com/en follows; “I dream of carry out successful postdoctoral researcher at MIT and
works in a short time. Currently I am Harvard Universities.