THE OVERALL
IMPACT
1,000,000
Americans affected by hydrocephalus
100%
failure rate of shunts over 10 years
$50,000
treatment costs per patient per year
“It looks like a Band-Aid
that’s talking to a cellphone.
There’s nothing like this out
there today.”
John A. Rogers
Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery
