Funded Researchers

Professor Giovanni Traverso is the Director of the Laboratory for Translational Engineering at MIT, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, an Associate Physician in Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute. He earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University, where he pioneered non-invasive cancer detection methods. His postdoctoral research at MIT focused on advanced drug delivery and gastrointestinal sensing. His current work drives the development of next-generation drug delivery systems and ingestible devices for physiological monitoring.
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