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Rajat Mittal

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  • Whiting School of Engineering

Rajat Mittal is a mechanical engineering professor and an expert in computational fluid dynamics. Mittal recently found that posture can make a big difference in how fast the body absorbs the medicine, and the wrong posture can delay how fast the medicine is broken down and absorbed—by as much as an hour.

Mittal and fellow researchers also developed a mathematical model to estimate the risk of airborne transmission of COVID-19. Insights from this new model could help assess how well preventive efforts, like mask wearing and social distancing, are protecting us in different transmission scenarios.

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Recent coverage

Have you been taking pills wrong? Here’s what science says.
Sep 20, 2022
/ The Washington Post
New Science Reveals the Best Way to Take a Pill
Sep 15, 2022
/ Web MD
Researchers Outside Medicine Have a New Focus: Covid-19
May 26, 2020
/ The Wall Street Journal

Hub coverage

A person holds a white pill in the palm of their hand and a glass of water in the other
The best way to take a pill, according to science
Published Aug 16, 2022
Researchers examining the mechanics of drug dissolution and the natural anatomy of the stomach found that taking a pill while lying on your right side shortens the time it takes for medicine to be absorbed
Detail from infographic shows an infected woman speaking
COVID-19
New model calculates risk of COVID-19 transmission
Published Oct 21, 2020
The Contagion Airborne Transmission inequality seeks to make sense of the many variables, including environmental ones, that can affect transmissibility of COVID-19

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