Functional Silicon for autonomous Pacemaker
May, 2026 – Celtro is developing solutions for energy harvesting from human tissue to supply medical implants in the human body. To this purpose, a custom-designed ASIC-chip was developed and put to work in a lab based test-setup. The measurements have confirmed the target design data. The power dissipation of this chip to operate autonomously […]
Förderbescheid für Celtro GmbH
Dresden, 14. Mai 2026 – Die Firma Celtro GmbH wurde am 19. November 2019 in Dresden mit dem Ziel gegründet, Energie aus menschlichem Gewebe für autonome implantierbare System zu nutzen. Damit entfällt der Bedarf für Batterien und deren Austausch bei Erschöpfung. Weil Batterien auch den Hauptteil des Bauvolumens ausmachen, können die Geräte signifikant verkleinert werden und ermöglichen neuartige medizinische Therapieformen. […]
Celtro Is Making Medical Implants Battery-Free Using Cadence Tools
The battery in a pacemaker occupies approximately 60 to 80% of its space, which limits the device’s placement within the heart. Celtro is looking to remove the battery from the system altogether. By combining medtech and semiconductors, Celtro technology collects electrical energy from the human body’s biological cells. To make this happen, the company has […]
Peer Reviewed Article in Heart Rhythm Journal published by Elesevier
Bioelectric energy harvesting from myocardial tissue is feasible and will be able to supply the energy to operate autonomous miniaturized pacemakers in the future. CELTRO is working to accelerate this path with focussed R&D *) in this domain. The R&D-Team in CELTRO and its partners have shown that bioelectric energy can be harvested though our […]
Heart Rhythm Society Panel
Heart Rhythm Society – Annual Conference from April 24-27 in San Diego, USAForrest Pape is presenting the Celtro-Concept for an autonomous pacemaker without batteries, as its device is powered from myocardial tissue.
Industry Strategy Symposium, ISS-Europe 2025
Celtro presented at the Industry Strategy Symposium, which took place from 13th to 15th of March 2025 in Sopot, Poland. The conference is organized by SEMI-Europe and is a yearly gathering of semiconductor business executives. Gerd Teepe presented the Celtro-Concept to power medical implants directly from the biological surrounding tissue. It requires lowering the power […]
Celtro partners with Nano Dimension on implantable packages with energy harvesting
Celtro’s partner for package manufacturing, Nano Dimension, has shared a customer success story video on Celtro’s innovative biological energy harvesting technology.
WIRED Article features Celtro’s technology
The online journal Wired recentlly published an article on Celtro and its energy harvesting technology: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-battery-that-never-gets-flat
Energy generation from biological cells
Semiconductors are the basis of modern medical devices such as pacemakers, biosensors, and hearing aids. Today, technology advancements have reduced power consumption of chips to the extent that the energy supply of such systems can be powered by body’s own cell energy. Battery depletion, device replacement, replacement operations and charging stations will become obsolete in the future.
Energiegewinnung aus biologischen Zellen
Halbleiterelektronik ist die fundamentale Grundlage moderner Medizinprodukte wie Herzschrittmacher, Biosensoren oder Hörhilfen. Heute ist der Zeitpunkt gekommen, die Energie-Versorgung derartiger Systeme autark aus körpereigener Zellenergie zu erzeugen. Batterieerschöpfung, Gerätewechsel, Austausch-Operationen und Ladestationen würden damit überflüssig werden.