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Willem Kolft
Willem Kolft was born in 1911 in Netherland, and he died in 2009, at the age 98.
Willem Kolft worked at a small hospital during World War II and he invented the artificial kidney in 1945, because he saw a young man die because his kidneys didn't work.
Willem Kolft moved to the United States in 1950. He helped to invent the artificial heart.
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The first artificial kidney
The artificial Kidney was invented in 1945 in Netherland by Willem Kolf. He invented the artificial Kidney because he saw a young man die, because, his kidneys didn't work. Kolff's kidney could be used for purifyng the blood of a patient. -
Fissell and his colleagues
in November 2015 to further continue the research and development of the project. The goal of this project is to create a bio-hybrid device that can imitate the functions of a healthy kidney by removing enough waste products to keep a patient from needing dialysis treatment. -
Fissel and his team
The device will be designed to be small enough to fit inside a patient’s body that will successfully operate with the patient’s natural blood flow. Fissell and his research team continue to make progress and they expected the implantable artificial kidney would enter human trials by 2017.