Giovanni Traverso

Associate Professor
Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Technology Areas
Chemicals & Materials: Polymers, Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials, Catalysis & Synthesis, Composites, Metals / Drug Delivery: Microparticles & Nanoparticles / Biotechnology: Biomedical Devices & Systems, Sensors & Monitoring, Biomanufacturing, Tissue Engineering, Cell Separation, Prostheses, Synthetic Biology, DNA & RNA Editing / Drug Discovery and Research Tools: Genomics & Proteomics, Cell Interrogation, Animal Models, Cell Culture, Cell Lines & Organoids / Therapeutics: Small Molecules, Vaccines, Proteins & Antibodies, Cell Based Therapy, Regenerative Medicine, Nucleic Acids / Biomaterials & Bioelectronics: Health Monitoring, Medical Device Coatings, Tissue Repair / Communication Systems: Wireless / Agriculture & Food: Delivery, Nutrition / Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) / Electronics & Photonics: Semiconductors / Sensing & Imaging: Chemical & Radiation Sensing, Imaging / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Robotics, Motors, Autonomous Systems, Manufacturing & Equipment / Energy & Distribution: Electrochemical Devices, Energy Storage / Computer Science: Bioinformatics / Diagnostics: Imaging Agents, Assays
Impact Areas
Healthy Living, Advanced Materials, Uncharted Frontiers, Connected World

Multidisciplinary researcher and clinician who combines engineering and medicine to create innovative solutions for drug delivery, sensing and cancer detection.

Background and Experience

Giovanni Traverso is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and also a gastroenterologist in the Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School. His current research program is focused on developing the next generation of drug delivery systems to enable safe and efficient delivery of therapeutics, biomedical device to support new modes of drug administration and sensing a broad array of physiologic and pathophysiologic signals. Additionally, Dr. Traverso continues his efforts towards the development of novel diagnostic tests that enable the early detection of cancer.

Technologies

Self-Righting Systems for Tissue Wall Localization

Technology / Case number: #19012JQ
Robert Langer / Ester Caffarel Salvador / Niclas Roxhed / Minsoo Khang / Alex Abramson / Daniel Minahan / Taylor Bensel / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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MICRONEEDLE DEVICES AND USES THEREOF

Technology / Case number: #14758JQ
Robert Langer / Carl Schoellhammer / Baris Polat / Giovanni Traverso / Avraham Schroeder / Daniel Anderson / Daniel Blankschtein
Technology Areas: Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Self-Righting Systems, Methods, and Related Components

Technology / Case number: #20706JQ
Robert Langer / Ester Caffarel Salvador / Niclas Roxhed / Minsoo Khang / Alex Abramson / Taylor Bensel / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Drug Delivery / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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L-SOMA: Oral Delivery of a Biologic Molecule to the Stomach Wall via a Liquid Injection

Technology / Case number: #21194QJ
Robert Langer / Andreas Vegge / Jorrit Jeroen Water / Xiaoya Lu / Mikkel Wennemoes Hvitfeld Ley / Brian Jensen / Mette Poulsen / Jesper Windum / Brian Mouridsen / Mikkel Oliver Jespersen / Morten Frederiksen / Alex Abramson / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Self-Righting Systems and Related Components and Methods

Technology / Case number: #20705QJ
Robert Langer / Brian Jensen / Mette Poulsen / Mikkel Oliver Jespersen / Peter Herskind / Bo Kristiansen / Morten Frederiksen / Jorrit Water / Ester Caffarel Salvador / Niclas Roxhed / Minsoo Khang / Alex Abramson / Taylor Bensel / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Industrial Engineering & Automation / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Connected World
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Devices for Needless Drug Delivery in the GI tract

Technology / Case number: #21911QJ
Robert Langer / Adam Jun Bohr / Aghiad Ghazal / Drago Sticker / Cody Cleveland / Torben Sebastia Last / Yi Lu / Graham Arrick / Declan Gwynne / Sean You / Jacob Wainer / Niclas Roxhed / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Drug Delivery / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Compacted Powder Needles for Intramucosal Delivery

Technology / Case number: #21149QJ
Giovanni Traverso / Morten Frederiksen
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Silicone Valve API Compartment Sealing Barrier

Technology / Case number: #21569QJ
Giovanni Traverso / Brian Jensen / Mikkel Oliver Jespersen / Morten Frederiksen / Alex Abramson
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Chemicals & Materials / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Prolonged-Release Hydrogel Formulations of Toll-Like Receptor Agonists for Intratumoral Injection to Increase Immunotherapy Response

Technology / Case number: #23215J
Robert Langer / Umar Mahmood / Eric Wehrenberg-Klee / Gabrielle Ndakwah / Jan-Georg Rosenboom / Avik Som / Arijit Basu / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Branched Poly(-amino esters) for the Delivery of Nucleic Acids

Technology / Case number: #20333JQ
Robert Langer / Gary Liu / James Byrne / Netra Kamat / Hyunjoon Kim / Daniel Reker / Grace Junyue Zhong / Ameya Kirtane / Yunhua Shi / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Drug Delivery / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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