Alex Abramson Invited Seminar Speaker

Description

The Neurology and Neurosurgery HEPIUS Lab, advised by Nicholas Theodore and Amir Manbachi, is hosting Alex Abramson ('15), a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, who will discuss his studies on ingestible and wearable technologies alongside well-known scholars such as Bob Langer, Zhenan Bao, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, and Giovanni Traverso.

Abramson is the recipient of an Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships (F32) from the National Institutes of Health. He received his PhD in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Bachelor of Science in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Please attend the event by using the Zoom link.

Abstract:

Medical devices that conform to and interact with the body hold profound implications in medicine, supporting a new generation of personalized and automated therapies with higher patient compliance and faster diagnostic feedback. In this talk, we will explore a series of ingestible and wearable technologies that physically interact with targeted tissues through programmable geometric and material transformations to enable previously unachievable therapeutic and sensing capabilities. Specifically, we will review the development of novel technologies enabling the oral delivery of macromolecule drugs such as insulin, as well as technologies enabling the rapid assessment of cancer therapeutics through real-time tumor monitoring.