She is also a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and a chief scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

When you join a company, you sign over your patent rights to the company.”[4] Takeuchi is the daughter of Mary (Marija) and Rudolf Sans (Rūdolfs Sāns), Second World War refugees from Latvia.

[5] Rudolf and Mary fled Soviet-occupied Latvia for Germany in 1945, living in a refugee camp for several years, ultimately immigrating to the United States.

She is currently a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University in the departments of chemistry, and material science and engineering.

[9] For these devices to be easily miniature and reliable, they needed to be connected to an energy source that was also characteristically similar.

[11] All of these characteristics greatly benefit ICD’s and their ability to help people with irregular rhythms and beating frequencies within their hearts.

If traditional forms of batteries are used, patients usually have to go through surgery every year to replace the devices and ensure the functionality of the implant.

[13] Initially launched into the marketplace it the late 1980s and early 1990s, these SVO batteries are still prevalent and widely used today.