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
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

Long-term Stabilization, Formulation and Tableting of Live Microbial Cells

Technology / Case number: #22886J
Robert Langer / Emily Kolaya / Johanna L'Heureux / Miguel Jimenez / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Drug Discovery and Research Tools
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Vibrating Ingestible BioElectronic Stimulator (VIBES)

Technology / Case number: #23759JQ
Robert Langer / Amro Alshareef / Shriya Sruthi Srinivasan / Giovanni Traverso
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
Robert Langer / George Selsing / Adam Gierlach / So-Yoon Yang / Sean You / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Computer Science
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Advanced Materials
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A Handheld Closed-Loop Automatic Insulin Delivery System

Technology / Case number: #22018J
Giovanni Traverso / Canchen Li / Erin Raftery / Sean You / Hen Wei Huang
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Communication Systems / Drug Delivery
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Genotype-Directed Local Delivery of Targeted Therapeutics at the Tumor Margin

Technology / Case number: #19863J
Robert Langer / Ganesh Shankar / Daniel Cahill / Ameya Kirtane / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Drug Discovery and Research Tools / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Millineedle Systems for Esophageal Drug Delivery

Technology / Case number: #20939J
Robert Langer / Simo Pajovic / Sahab Babaee / Ester Caffarel Salvador / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Luminal Unfolding Micro-Injectors for Drug Delivery

Technology / Case number: #20106JQ
Robert Langer / Vance Soares / Ester Caffarel Salvador / Alex Abramson / Daniel Minahan / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Uncharted Frontiers
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Closed-Loop Intramuscular Motility Prosthesis, Submucosal Neuromodulation Device and Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Implantation Tool

Technology / Case number: #23258J
Robert Langer / Marc-Joseph Antonini / Shriya Sruthi Srinivasan / Giovanni Traverso / Polina Anikeeva
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Computer Science
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Ingestible Chemical Energy Harvesting System with Extended Lifetime

Technology / Case number: #23174
Giovanni Traverso / So-Yoon Yang / Jason Li
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Drug Discovery and Research Tools / Energy & Distribution / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Advanced Materials
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Engineering a Swine Macro-Organ Colorectal Cancer Platform to Combat Transport-Induced Chemotherapy Resistance

Technology / Case number: #22864JQ
Robert Langer / Daniel Reker / Vance Soares / Yunhua Shi / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Drug Discovery and Research Tools / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Advanced Materials
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