Smart Pills
Ingestible Microsystems for Diagnosing and Treating Gastrointestinal Disease
Reza Ghodssi
Distinguished University Professor and Herbert Rabin Distinguished Chair in Engineering
University of Maryland
Executive Director of Research and Innovation, UMD MATRIX Lab
Director, MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory
About the Lecture
The lecture will discuss the development of smart pills or ingestible microsystems capable of diagnosing, monitoring and treating disease from within the body. It will also address capsules that detect biomarkers, sample the gastrointestinal environment, transmit information outside the body and release medication in response to detected conditions or external commands.
About the Speaker
Dr. Ghodssi’s research has focused on microelectromechanical systems, microsensors, actuators and integrated micro- and nanotechnologies for biomedical and environmental applications. A major part of his work concerns ingestible capsule systems that can sense conditions within the gastrointestinal tract, collect or analyze biological information, communicate results wirelessly and deliver drugs or other treatments at selected locations.