The Role of a MEMS Foundry in the Med Device Industry
ABSTRACT
Science Corporation develops advanced neuroelectronic technologies to address serious unmet clinical needs. Our first product, the Science Eye, is an optogenetic-based retinal prosthesis aimed at addressing blindness due to photoreceptor loss. In a step towards vertical integration, Science has acquired a comprehensive MEMS fabrication facility and will continue to support external customers in addition to spooling production of our internal technology. Our aim is to lower the barrier to innovation by providing a streamlined approach to standard foundry services, and by leveraging our internal expertise in medical device production to help our customers. Science Foundry is your fastest path from design to device. Choose from our comprehensive multi-project wafers or take advantage of our vast array of capabilities for a custom process run.
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Dr. Kara Zappitelli is the Lead Engineer & Foundry Director at Science Corporation’s pure-play MEMS foundry in RTP, North Carolina. She is a physicist-gone-engineer with a penchant for hard problems and more than a decade of experience in micro and nano fabrication for applications in neural engineering and MEMS. Kara joined Science at its inception and helped drive the initial R&D for the Science Eye device before moving to head up production of both internal and external devices.
Kara received a B.S. in Physics from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oregon, where she was fabricating high surface area electrodes for applications in retinal prostheses. Before joining Science, she completed a post-doc investigating 2-photon lithography integration with 2D planar processing for complex neural interfaces.