Brad Boggs: Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Abstract
The Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center develops advanced
technologies under a quality system and makes them available to both academic and corporate researchers. With support from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the APT Center strives to be a national leader in creating and delivering innovative products based on cutting edge technologies in the fields of polymer science and biomaterials, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microelectronics, wireless communication and neural engineering. The mission of the APT Center is to discover and develop new technologies and techniques that will benefit veterans and other individuals with disabilities. Additionally, the Center actively engages in technology dissemination and transfer to industry such that VA developed technologies may be easily accessed by the community at large. This presentation provides insights on several implantable devices being produced or developed by the APT Center, with special emphasis on neural interfaces to stimulate peripheral nerves or record the electrical activity of contracting muscles or other biopotentials.