Edible Smart Pills
Ingestible devices that can sense, sample, and treat disease
Reza Ghodssi
Distinguished University Professor and Herbert Rabin Distinguished Chair in Engineering
Executive Director of Research and Innovation, UMD MATRIX Lab
Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices
University of Maryland
Sponsored by an Anonymous PSW Science Member
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About the Lecture
The lecture will describe the development of ingestible smart pills that can travel through the gastrointestinal tract while sensing biomarkers and tissue conditions. It will explore emerging capabilities for autonomous biopsy, controlled local drug delivery, and less invasive diagnosis and monitoring of gastrointestinal disease.
About the Speaker
Reza Ghodssi is Distinguished University Professor and Herbert Rabin Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Maryland. He holds appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research, directs the MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory, serves as Executive Director of Research and Innovation at the MATRIX Lab, and is a Fellow of the Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices. He previously served as Director of the Institute for Systems Research and founding co-director of the Brain and Behavior Initiative.
His research focuses on the design and fabrication of micro-, nano-, and bio-devices and systems for chemical and biological sensing, small-scale energy conversion and harvesting, and healthcare applications. His work integrates microfabrication, sensors, actuators, electronics, materials, and biological systems.
His group is developing autonomous ingestible capsules that combine sensing, wireless communication, and microactuation to monitor the gastrointestinal tract, sample or characterize tissue, and deliver treatment at selected locations. The program includes bioimpedance and chemical sensing, targeted drug delivery, and mechanisms for intestinal biopsy, with the goal of providing less invasive ways to diagnose and monitor gastrointestinal disease.
He is an author on more than 560 journal and refereed conference publications and is co-editor of the MEMS Materials and Processes Handbook. He is an inventor in a number of issued US patents, with in additional published and pending patent applications.
Among other honors and awards, he is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Vacuum Society, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has received the American Vacuum Society Gaede-Langmuir Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and University of Maryland research and invention awards. He has also served as President of the Transducer Research Foundation.
Reza earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reading about the Speaker
University of Maryland faculty profile: https://faculty.eng.umd.edu/clark/faculty/396/Reza-Ghodssi
Institute for Systems Research profile: https://isr.umd.edu/clark/faculty/396/Reza-Ghodssi