MSAL Published New Paper on Ingestible Capsule Technology in Gut Health Monitoring

Researchers working in Professor Reza Ghodssi's (ECE/ISR/Fischell Institute Fellow) MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory (MSAL) at the University of Maryland (UMD) have been advancing a non-invasive, ingestible capsule that uses wireless technology to provide information to diagnosticians in real-time. (The capsule is in development and not currently available to the medical community.)

In November 2023, MSAL published this new research development in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials. “Miniaturized Capsule System Towards Real-time Electrochemical Detection of H2S in the Gastrointestinal Tract” was written by alumnus and current MATRIX Lab Assistant Research Scientist Justin Stine (ECE Ph.D. 2023), alumnus Hossein Abianeh (EE BS 2022), ECE Ph.D. student Katie Ruland and MSE Ph.D. student Joshua Levy, UMD Research Associate Luke Beardslee, UMD Visiting Assistant Professor Santiago Botasini, Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist Pankaj J. Pasricha, and Ghodssi. Ghodssi is the Ph.D. advisor for both Ruland and Levy.

“The paradigm of ingestible capsules has long fulfilled a diagnostic role for minimally invasive screening, taking images, and measuring our body’s physiology,” Dr. Ghodssi said. “Emerging capsules are challenged to sense complex biomarkers that demand advanced functionality. This makes systems integration and data learning techniques essential to capsule design.”

More information can be found on UMD ECE News. (14 - December / 2023)