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

Single Administration, Multi-Dose, Multi-Therapeutic Capable Delivery Platform for Veterinary Applications

Technology / Case number: #20943J
Robert Langer / Tiffany Hua / Miguel Jimenez / Jason Li / Jacob Coffey / Michael Williams / Christoph Winfried Johannes Steiger / Ester Caffarel Salvador / Alex Abramson / Giovanni Traverso
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
Robert Langer / Charles Seaberg / Nikhil Lal / Aaron Lopes / Louis DeRidder / Hen Wei Huang / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Electrically-Triggered Degradation Of The Drug/Bacteria Chamber Covering

Technology / Case number: #24830J
Anantha Chandrakasan / Ian Ballinger / Yeseul Jeon / Kyeongho Kim / Emily Kolaya / Yiyuan Yang / Kewang Nan / James McRae / Adam Gierlach / So-Yoon Yang / Rishabh Mittal / Seokkee Min / Sean You / Miguel Jimenez / Giovanni Traverso / Betar Gallant
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: #25143JQ
Anantha Chandrakasan / Ian Ballinger / Yeseul Jeon / James McRae / Adam Gierlach / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Communication Systems
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Connected World
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An Ingestible Stackable Gastric Resident System for Gastrointestinal Applications

Technology / Case number: #25424J
Robert Langer / Matt Murphy / SeungHo Lee / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology / Communication Systems
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Gastric-Resident Devices for Gram-level Drug Delivery

Technology / Case number: #20379JQ
Robert Langer / Daniel Minahan / Taylor Bensel / Malvika Verma / Tyler Grant / Andrew Bellinger / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Kirigami-Inspired Stents for Sustained Local Delivery of Therapeutics

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

Technology / Case number: #22862J
Robert Langer / Xiaoyue Qi / Adam Wentworth / Giovanni Traverso
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
Robert Langer / John Ashraf Fou Salama / Zhaoyu Gong / Jasmine Eugenie Belfrage / Jacqueline Chu / Hen Wei Huang / Nhi Phan / Junwei Li / Christoph Winfried Johannes Steiger / Feyisope Eweje / Malvika Verma / Giovanni Traverso
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Electronics & Photonics / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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