Principal Investigators Michael Cima , Cristina Sáenz
Principal Investigator Michael Cima
Introducing Analog Devices’ Digital Health business and the role of sensors in Medtech Brendan Cronin Director, Digital Healthcare Group at Analog Devices
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Rapid Antigen Diagnostics for Emerging Pathogens Lee Gehrke Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Professor of Health Sciences GI device development in a few movements Giovanni Traverso Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Electronic Textile Conformable Suit (E-TeCS) Canan Dagdeviren LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab MR relaxometer for improving clinical outcomes in hemodialysis Michael Cima David H. Koch Professor of Engineering, MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Medical technologies are evolving at a very rapid pace. Portable communications devices and other handheld electronics are influencing our expectations of future medical tools. The advanced medical technologies of our future will not necessarily be large expensive systems. They are just as likely to be small and disposable. This talk will review how microsystems and microdevices are already impacting health care as commercial products or in clinical development. Adoption of new technologies depends greatly on compatibility with existing clinical practice. Microsystems that are rapidly adopted fulfill significant medical needs and fit seamlessly with existing procedures. My group has been focusing on studying individual medical procedures and trying to make them do things never before thought possible or dramatically reduce morbidity associated with that procedure. Several examples will be described including noninvasive ways of determining hydration status, measuring local hypoxia in tumors, measuring tumor response to targeted therapy, and longitudinal measurements of biomarkers.