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 / 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

Flexible Piezoelectric Devices for Gastrointestinal Motility Sensing

Technology / Case number: #19910JQ
Giovanni Traverso / Canan Dagdeviren / Robert Langer
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Advanced Materials
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Single Administration, Multi-Dose, Multi-Therapeutic Capable Delivery Platform for Veterinary Applications

Technology / Case number: #20943J
Giovanni Traverso / Alex Abramson / Ester Caffarel Salvador / Robert Langer / Christoph Winfried Johannes Steiger / Michael Williams / Jacob Coffey / Jason Li / Miguel Jimenez / Tiffany Hua
Technology Areas: Agriculture & Food / Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Advanced Materials
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A Rapidly Clinically Translatable, Closed-Loop Drug Delivery System

Technology / Case number: #24932JQ
Giovanni Traverso / Robert Langer / Hen Wei Huang / Louis DeRidder / Aaron Lopes / Nikhil Lal / Charles Seaberg
Technology Areas: Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Electrically-Triggered Degradation Of The Drug/Bacteria Chamber Covering

Technology / Case number: #24830J
Betar Gallant / Giovanni Traverso / Miguel Jimenez / Sean You / Seokkee Min / Rishabh Mittal / So-Yoon Yang / Adam Gierlach / James McRae / Kewang Nan / Yiyuan Yang / Emily Kolaya / Kyeongho Kim / Yeseul Jeon / Ian Ballinger / Anantha Chandrakasan
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Energy & Distribution
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Advanced Materials
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Secure and Stable Wireless Communication for an Ingestible Device

Technology / Case number: #25143J
Giovanni Traverso / Adam Gierlach / James McRae / Yeseul Jeon / Ian Ballinger / Anantha Chandrakasan
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Communication Systems
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Connected World
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Gastric-Resident Devices for Gram-level Drug Delivery

Technology / Case number: #20379JQ
Giovanni Traverso / Andrew Bellinger / Tyler Grant / Malvika Verma / Taylor Bensel / Daniel Minahan / Robert Langer
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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An Ingestible Stackable Gastric Resident System for Gastrointestinal Applications

Technology / Case number: #25424J
Giovanni Traverso / Robert Langer / SeungHo Lee / Matt Murphy
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Communication Systems
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Kirigami-Inspired Stents for Sustained Local Delivery of Therapeutics

Technology / Case number: #22472J
Giovanni Traverso / Robert Langer / Sahab Babaee / Yichao Shi / Saeed Abbasalizadeh
Technology Areas: Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Advanced Materials
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Metal-Organic Frameworks Mediated Macromolecule Delivery System

Technology / Case number: #22862J
Giovanni Traverso / Robert Langer / Adam Wentworth / Xiaoyue Qi
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Gastroretentive Electronics for Long-Term, Continuous, and Real-Time Monitoring of Alcohol Intake

Technology / Case number: #22231J
Giovanni Traverso / Malvika Verma / Feyisope Eweje / Robert Langer / Christoph Winfried Johannes Steiger / Junwei Li / Nhi Phan / Hen Wei Huang / Jacqueline Chu / Jasmine Eugenie Belfrage / Zhaoyu Gong / John Ashraf Fou Salama
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Electronics & Photonics / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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