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

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

Ingestible Physiological Status Monitoring (PSM) Device (the "PSM Pill")

Technology / Case number: #16636LJ
Albert Swiston / Tadd Hughes / Giovanni Traverso / Gregory Ciccarelli / Kerry Johnson / Robert Langer
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Formulations for Stabilizing Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium Strains

Technology / Case number: #25723J
Giovanni Traverso / Christina Karavasili / Matt Murphy / Samantha Bozorgzadeh / Mairead Heavey / Kimberley Biggs / Isaac Tucker
Technology Areas: Drug Discovery and Research Tools / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Compositions for Enhancing Esophageal Drug Retention and Absorption

Technology / Case number: #25238J
Giovanni Traverso / Christina Karavasili
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Robocap

Technology / Case number: #24836J
Giovanni Traverso / Shriya Sruthi Srinivasan / Robert Langer / Amro Alshareef
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Drug Delivery / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Long-term Stabilization, Formulation and Tableting of Live Microbial Cells

Technology / Case number: #22886J
Giovanni Traverso / Robert Langer / Miguel Jimenez / Johanna L'Heureux / Emily Kolaya
Technology Areas: Drug Discovery and Research Tools
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Universal Gastrointestinal Tract Motility Mapping System

Technology / Case number: #24142JQ
Giovanni Traverso / Neil Jia
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Vibrating Ingestible BioElectronic Stimulator (VIBES)

Technology / Case number: #23759JQ
Giovanni Traverso / Shriya Sruthi Srinivasan / Robert Langer / Amro Alshareef
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Drug Delivery / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Ingestible Electronics Integrated with Flexible Measurement Electrodes for Gastrointestinal Bioelectric Sensing

Technology / Case number: #23241J
Giovanni Traverso / Robert Langer / Sean You / So-Yoon Yang / Adam Gierlach / George Selsing
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Computer Science
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Zero-Crossing-Based Bio Engineered Sensor

Technology / Case number: #23713J
Timothy K Lu / Giovanni Traverso / Phillip Nadeau / Christoph Winfried Johannes Steiger / Rabia Yazicigil Kirby / Maria Eugenia Inda / Miguel Jimenez / Adam Wentworth / Jenna Ahn / Qijun Liu
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Drug Discovery and Research Tools
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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A Handheld Closed-Loop Automatic Insulin Delivery System

Technology / Case number: #22018J
Giovanni Traverso / Hen Wei Huang / Sean You / Erin Raftery / Canchen Li
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Communication Systems / Drug Delivery
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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