SUNY RF News

By January 2014, Nathaniel Cady and Eric Ledet had already developed a long-term partnership, collaborating on a series of projects that  combined Cady’s strengths as a microbiologist and Ledet’s strengths as a biomedical engineer. They were in the process of submitting another application to the National Institutes of Health when they met electrical engineer Reena Dahle, who had come to Albany to give a seminar on radiofrequency (RF) energy harvesting.

“It was serendipitous that I went to seminar that day,” says Cady, an associate professor of nanoscience at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. “Reena was about halfway through her presentation when I started making the connections between the work she’d done and the project we were hoping to start. I followed up with her afterwards, and that’s what sealed the deal for me. So I told Eric, who visited Reena’s lab in New Paltz and called on the drive back to say, ‘We finally found the right person.”

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