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New haptic patch transmits complexity of touch to the skin

November 2024   Device delivers various sensations, including vibrations, pressure and twisting

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Implantable device reverses opioid overdose in animals

November 2024   An implantable device detected opioid overdose and automatically administered naloxone, saving lives in rat and pig models. The device hasn’t yet been tested in people. If successful, it might also be adapted to treat other emergencies, such as life-threatening allergic reactions.

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Battery-free bioelectronic implants

November 2024   Spurred by advances in energy-harvesting materials, a new generation of advanced implantable biomedical devices is emerging that does away with the bulky battery.

from Chemistry World

Implant Could Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths

November 2024   A team of scientists led by Northwestern Medicine investigators has created an implant capable of reversing an opioid overdose, according to findings published in Science Advances.

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Improving the Occupational Health of Manufacturing Workers

November 2024   Interdisciplinary engineering team developed a wearable fatigue-prediction sensor system.

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A new implant tested in animals reverses drug overdoses

October 2024   With continued development, the device has the potential to someday save human lives.

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Implantable device may prevent death from opioid overdose

October 2024   Researchers from WashU Medicine and Northwestern University developed an implantable device that can detect an overdose and rapidly deliver naloxone.

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Prof. Rogers delivers plenary talk at iCANX event

July 2024   Prof. Rogers delivers a plenary talk titled "From Scientific Discovery to Engineering Development and Commercial Deployment" at the iCANX event in Davos, Switzerland.

Consulting for Wearable Technologies - A Catalyst for Innovation

June 2024   Consulting for Wearable Technologies - A Catalyst for Innovation, a piece that highlights our course in the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Northwestern University.

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Advances in Maternity Technology

March 2024   Advances in Maternity Technology, features our work in this area!

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Shape-Shifting Ultrasound Stickers

March 2024   Shape-Shifting Ultrasound Stickers Detect Post-surgical Complications, as reported in a paper in Science.

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Monitoring Homeostasis with Ultrasound - A Perspective Piece

March 2024   S. Sharma and Y. Lee write a perspectives piece titled Monitoring Homeostasis With Ultrasound, on our paper on this topic, published in Science.

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Wearable, Wireless Electronics

February 2024   Fenella Saunders writes a piece featuring Q&A with Prof. Rogers on research in bioelectronics, titled Wearable Wireless Electronics.

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2024 IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award

February 2024   Prof. Rogers is awarded the 2024 IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award.

Wearable vocal dosimetry device featured on CBS Evening News

December 2023   A new project at Northwestern University aims to manage the stress we put our vocal cords through, using a device to monitor how hard our voices are working in order to prevent vocal cord injuries.

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First-of-their-kind wearables capture body sounds to continuously monitor health

November 2023   Softly adhered to the skin, the novel devices developed by a team with Professor John Rogers continuously track subtle bodily sounds simultaneously and wirelessly at multiple locations across the body.

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Taking Kidney Temperatures to Detect Rejection

November 2023   Our work in bioelectronics for kidney transplants highlighted in Nature Reviews Nephrology, December 2023 edition.

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Implantable Devices for Kidney Monitoring

October 2023   Our work in bioelectronics for kidney transplants was highlighted in Nature Electronics!

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Made to degrade!

October 2023   Transient electronics featured as a cover article in C&ENews -- Made to Degrade!

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Ripley's Believe It or Not!

September 2023   Microrobots featured as the worlds smallest remote controlled walking robot in the 2023 issue of Ripley's Believe It or Not.

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Tracking kidney transplant fitness

September 2023   M. Zaidan and F.G. Lakkis write a perspectives piece in Science on our paper on bioelectronic monitoring of kidney health, titled Tracking Kidney Transplant Fitness.

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First device to monitor transplanted organs

September 2023   First device to monitor transplanted organs detects early signs of rejection, as reported in a paper in Science.

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Increase accessibility of motorized wheelchairs

March 2023   NU researchers seek to increase accessibility of motorized wheelchair

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Self-powered drug delivery system

March 2023   Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University Invent Self-Powered Drug Delivery System, as reported in a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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First transient electronic bandage

February 2023   First transient electronic bandage speeds healing by 30%, as reported in a paper in Science Advances.

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First wearable device for vocal fatigue

February 2023   First wearable device for vocal fatigue senses when your voice needs a break, as reported in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Colorimetric fliers for remote sensing

February 2023   News piece on our research on colorimetric microfliers for environmental monitoring, titled - Colorimetric fliers for remote sensing.

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Next-Level Wearable Tech

December 2022   Summary piece on research in the Rogers Group, featured in the Northwestern Medicine magazine, titled - Next-Level Wearable Tech.

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QSIB receives a donation from the estate of Louis A. Simpson and from Kimberly Querrey

October 2022   Northwestern University Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey (’22, ’23 P) and the Louis Simpson Trust have made a new $121 million gift to Northwestern to advance biomedical discovery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, reinforce the University’s position as a global research powerhouse and expand executive education at the Kellogg School of Management. $11 million of the new gift will support QSIB.

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A soft haptic interface for programmable patterns of touch

September 2022   Jun Chen, et al writes a perspectives piece titled - A soft haptic interface for programmable patterns of touch - on our large-area, epidermal haptic systems published in Nature Electronics.

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Making electronics that don’t last

August 2022   Editorial piece titled - Making Electronics That Dont Last - on our bio/ecoresorbable MEMS systems published in Nature Electronics.

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Cooling the pain

July 2022   Shan Jiang and Guosong Hong write a perspectives piece titled - Cooling the pain - on our bioresorbable microfluidic implantable system for targeted block of pain signals in peripheral nerves published in Science.

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Dissolving implantable device relieves pain without drugs

June 2022   New device could provide an alternative to opioids and other highly addictive drugs

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Remote control of the heart and beyond

May 2022   Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann writes a perspectives piece titled - Remote control of the heart and beyond - on our transient, closed-loop system for electrotherapy published in Science

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Smart, dissolving pacemaker communicates with body-area sensor and control network

May 2022   New, smart transient pacemaker that is integrated into a coordinated network of soft, flexible, wireless, wearable sensors and control units placed around the upper body.

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Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot

May 2022   Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and even jump.

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John Rogers selected to receive the 2022 James Prize for Science and Technology Integration

January 2022   The prize honors outstanding contributions made by researchers who are able to adopt or adapt information or techniques from outside their fields, and thus integrate knowledge from two or more disciplines (e.g., engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, biomedicine, geosciences, astronomy, or computational sciences) to solve a major contemporary challenge not addressable from a single disciplinary perspective.

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John Rogers Receives 2022 Washington Award

January 2022   Northwestern Engineering’s John Rogers has received the prestigious 2022 Washington Award from the Western Society of Engineers and the Washington Award Commission. The award is conferred annually upon an engineer whose professional attainments have pre-eminently promoted the happiness, comfort, and well-being of humanity.

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Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics

December 2021   Several skin-interfaced wearable technologies from the group featured in an exhibit titled Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, open to the public through February 2023.

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America's Greatest Disruptors

December 2021   John Rogers was selected as one of America's 50 Greatest Disruptive Innovators

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A photocurable bioelectronics–tissue interface

November 2021   Tsuyoshi Sekitani writes a News and Views piece titled - A photocurable bioelectronics tissue interface - on our hydrogel materials for bioelectronics published in Nature Materials.

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A soft-electronic sensor network tracks neuromotor development in infants

November 2021   Y. Khan and Z. Bao write a Commentary piece titled - A soft-electronic sensor network tracks neuromotor development in infants - on our collaborative project published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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John Rogers receives State of Illinois’ highest honor

September 2021   Northwestern University professor John A. Rogers received the 2021 Order of Lincoln, the State of Illinois’ highest honor for professional achievement and public service.

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Seed-inspired vehicles take flight

September 2021   E. Farrell Helbling writes a News and Views piece titled - Seed-inspired vehicles take flight - on our electronic microfliers published in Nature

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Winged microchip is smallest-ever human-made flying structure

September 2021   The size of a grain of sand, dispersed microfliers could monitor air pollution, airborne disease and environmental contamination

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PBS NewsHour special feature on our bioresorbable, wireless pacemakers, as published in Nature Biotechnology

August 2021   Millions of Americans spend weeks recovering from heart surgery and other operations to repair brain and bone injuries every year. As special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Chicago, researchers are working on a novel approach to aid in that recovery. The story is part of our “Breakthrough” series.

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First-ever Transient Pacemaker Harmlessly Dissolves in Body

June 2021   Researchers at Northwestern and George Washington universities (GW) have developed the first-ever transient pacemaker — a wireless, battery-free, fully implantable pacing device that disappears after it’s no longer needed.

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Untethering mothers

May 2021   Soft, comfortable sensors are first to comprehensively monitor pregnant women and their babies without wires

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Implanted wireless device triggers mice to form instant bond

May 2021   Northwestern University researchers are building social bonds with beams of light. For the first time ever, Northwestern engineers and neurobiologists have wirelessly programmed — and then deprogrammed — mice to socially interact with one another in real time. The advancement is thanks to a first-of-its-kind ultraminiature, wireless, battery-free and fully implantable device that uses light to activate neurons.

from Northwestern Now

Get the sensation

April 2021   Haptics research aims to add touch to virtual reality, online shopping, and artificial limbs

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Four professors named Guggenheim fellows

April 2021   Northwestern University faculty members Mesmin Destin, Vicky Kalogera, Jennifer Lackey and John A. Rogers are among the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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‘Sweat sticker’ diagnoses cystic fibrosis on the skin in real time

March 2021   A Northwestern University-led research team has developed a novel skin-mounted sticker that absorbs sweat and then changes color to provide an accurate, easy-to-read diagnosis of cystic fibrosis within minutes.

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Smart tattoos

March 2021   Nina Notman takes a snapshot of the burgeoning field of health and fitness monitoring tattoos and patches

from Chemistry World

Electronic skin: from flexibility to a sense of touch

March 2021   Flexible circuits inspired by human skin offer options for health monitoring, prosthetics and pressure-sensing robots.

from Nature

Tiny Machine Poised to Unlock Brain’s Mysteries

March 2021   A team of scientists, led by researchers at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, has developed novel technology promising to increase understanding of how brains develop, and offer answers on repairing brains in the wake of neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases.

from Shirley Ryan Ability Lab

Novel Device Provides Continuous Monitoring of Skin, Prostheses

January 2021   A multi-disciplinary team of investigators led by Northwestern scientists have created a wireless, soft and flexible sensor that can constantly monitor pressure and temperature between the patient’s skin and prosthesis.

from FSM News Center

Wireless Device Improves Real-Time Monitoring of Blood Flow, Oxygenation in the Brain

January 2021   A novel wireless device may improve real-time monitoring of blood flow and oxygenation in the brain for neonatal and pediatric patients, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

from FSM News Center

Wearable COVID-19 sensor receives major award from the U.S. Department of Defense

December 2020   Sibel Health — a Northwestern spinout commercializing the sensor — has received $2.4 million from the U.S. Department of Defense through a Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium award.

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Northwestern and Maxim Integrated partner on next-generation medical sensors

December 2020   Northwestern University’s Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics (QSIB) has formed a long-term partnership with Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. to help lead the digital revolution in modern healthcare.

from Northwestern Now

News and Views piece on our smart catheters in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

October 2020   News and Views piece detailing our smart catheters with arrays of sensors and actuators in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

from Nature Biomedical Engineering

Clinical-grade wearables offer continuous monitoring for COVID-19

July 2020   Sticker-like medical device streams symptom data to physicians.

from Northwestern Now

Monitoring COVID-19 from hospital to home

May 2020   Researchers at Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago have developed a novel wearable device and are creating a set of data algorithms specifically tailored to catch early signs and symptoms associated with COVID-19 and to monitor patients as the illness progresses.

from Northwestern Now

Protecting Thin, Flexible Brain Interfaces from the Human Body

April 2020   In a recent publication in the journal Science Translational Medicine, Northwestern University researchers demonstrate next-generation flexible brain implants with more than a thousand electrodes can survive for more than six years.

from Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University

Caring for the Most Vulnerable Patients

March 2020   An interdisciplinary team of Northwestern University researchers has developed a new wireless, battery-charged, affordable monitoring system for newborn babies that can easily be implemented to provide clinical-grade care in nearly any setting.

from Northwestern Now

Jayson Tatum's Gx Sweat Patch Commercial on TNT

February 2020   Gatorade, Epicore Biosystems, and Northwestern University's Gx Sweat Patch TV Commercial, 'Push the Game Forward' Featuring Jayson Tatum

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New 'smart skin' may let you reach out and virtually touch -- anyone

November 2019   In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Rogers and his team at Northwestern report a new wireless and battery-free smart skin that could shift the course of this technology. Through a fast, programmable array of miniature vibrating disks embedded in a soft, flexible material, this smart skin can contour to the body and deliver sensory input -- what you'd feel when using it -- that Rogers says is quite natural.

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‘Epidermal VR’ gives technology a human touch

November 2019   Northwestern University researchers have developed a new thin, wireless system that adds a sense of touch to any virtual reality (VR) experience. Not only does this platform potentially add new dimensions to our long-distance relationships and entertainment, the technology also provides prosthetics with sensory feedback and imparts telemedicine with a human touch.

from Northwestern Now

Trustees Lou Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Make Additional $10 Million Gift to Northwestern

November 2019   New Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics will expand the development of body-integrated electronic systems and enhance research collaborations

from Northwestern Engineering

Feinberg Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

October 2019   Four Feinberg faculty members have been honored with the election to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

from Northwestern Medicine

Bioelectronic implant could prevent opioid deaths

October 2019   Project receives NIH grant worth up to $10 million over next five years.

from Northwestern Now

Prof. John Rogers with Chrissy Farr at CNBC Healthy Returns

May 2019   Sweating the Details: Prof. John Rogers with Chrissy Farr at CNBC Healthy Returns Conference.

from CNBC

Tiny wireless sensors could revolutionize how premature babies are monitored

March 2019   Tiny wireless skin sensors are being tested to monitor stroke recovery and breathing disorders, but they could also help babies who are born prematurely, according to a new study in the journal Science.

from CBS News

A Northwestern scientist's new invention to monitor NICU babies.

February 2019   Premature babies are often covered in wires. A Northwestern scientist's new invention could change that as detailed in new study published in the journal Science.

from Chicago Tribune

Waterproof workout patch studies a surprising source of info: your sweat

January 2019   Elite athletes must listen carefully to their bodies during workouts and competition. Their muscles. Heart rate. And, sometime soon, maybe even their sweat. Northwestern scientists have created a soft, bandage-like device that collects and analyzes an athlete’s perspiration as they run, bike and even swim underwater.

from Los Angeles Times

Your Sweat Will See You Now

January 2019   A new device — wearable, wireless and battery free — improves the ability to monitor and diagnose health problems by analyzing the sweat on your skin.

from New York Times

L'Oréal Unveils Prototype Of First-Ever Wearable Microfluidic Sensor To Measure Skin pH Levels

January 2019   Winner of CES 2019 Innovation Award, the My Skin Track pH will enable L'Oréal, Epicore Biosystems, and Northwestern University to develop a new wearable microfluidics product and conduct new clinical studies.

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Northwestern sweat tech on display in new Serena Williams Gatorade ad

December 2018   Wearable technology developed by John Rogers' Lab at Northwestern University and Epicore Biosystems was front and center recently in a new Gatorade commercial featuring tennis superstar Serena Williams.

from Chicago Inno

Gatorade's new tech-infused tv campaign featuring Serena Williams

December 2018   The tennis legend talks about our sweat patch technology, why she’s pitching Gatorade, and what makes a successful brand partnership in new Fast Company article.

from Fast Company

Bioelectronics that vanish in the body

December 2018   Wire-free devices that dissolve could expand the use of electric pulses in medicine.

from Science

Omnidirectional optogenetic stimulation

December 2018   A wireless, low-power optoelectronic platform, which is based on micro-LEDs, can provide multimodal programmable control over optogenetic stimulation parameters.

from Nature Electronics

John Rogers receives 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal

December 2018   Northwestern Engineering's John A. Rogers has received the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Materials Engineering from The Franklin Institute, one of the oldest centers for science education and development in the country.

from Northwestern Engineering

World’s smallest wearable device warns of UV exposure, enables precision phototherapy

December 2018   Smaller than an M&M and thinner than a credit card, device can optimize treatment of neonatal jaundice, skin diseases, seasonal affective disorder and reduce risk of sunburns and skin cancer.

from Northwestern Now

Beyond the biological

November 2018   In 2011, materials scientist John Rogers, now at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, made what he called epidermal electronics: thin sheets of circuits, the mechanical properties of which were engineered to match those of human skin. Using a suite of mechanical and materials-engineering techniques, Rogers made rigid silicon — the electronic industry’s material of choice — compatible with flexible and stretchable surfaces.

from Nature

L'Oreal's new sensor tracks your exposure to UV rays

November 2018   The future wearable skincare technology is roughly the size of an M&M. Launching today, L'Oréal’s La Roche-Posay My Skin Track UV sensor clips onto clothing and measures the wearer’s exposure to UV radiation, a form of radiation that is known to damage skin and, in large amounts, cause skin cancer.

from Wired

New Wearable Tech Device—Now in Apple Stores

November 2018   The brainchild of L’Oréal and Northwestern Engineers, the new My Skin Track/UV device, which just launched at select Apple stores and on apple.com, is the world’s first battery-free wearable electronic device to measure UV exposure.

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Skin sensor could improve life for a million hydrocephalus patients

November 2018   A new wireless, Band-Aid-like sensor developed at Northwestern University could revolutionize the way patients manage hydrocephalus and potentially save the U.S. health care system millions of dollars.

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Biodegradable implant provides electrical stimulation that speeds nerve regeneration

October 2018   Researchers at Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed the first example of a bioresorbable electronic medicine: an implantable, biodegradable wireless device that speeds nerve regeneration and improves the healing of a damaged nerve.

from Northwestern Now

Feinberg School of Medicine Podcast

August 2018   John A. Rogers, PhD, has created a fleet of wireless, wearable devices that have the potential to change the way physicians collect data and treat patients, from NICU preemies to stroke patients in recovery.

from Northwestern Medicine

Turning the Light Switch on to Treat Chronic Pain

April 2018   Press release from NIH that highlights our work on wireless, implantable LED systems for optogenetics control of bladder pain, originally published in the journal Pain.

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Optogenetics: Controlling Neurons With Photons

April 2018   Coffey writes a cover feature article in Optics and Photonics News that highlights our work on wireless, implantable LED systems for optogenetics, originally published in Neuron and commercially avaialble from Neurolux, Inc.

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Palpatating biopsy needles

March 2018   Song and Greenleaf write a News and Views piece in Nature Biomedical Engineering that highlights our work on millimeter-scale, piezoelectric modulus sensors capable of integration with biopsy needles for in situ, soft tissue characterization, originally published in Nature Biomedical Engineering

from Nature Biomedical Engineering

Gatorade, Northwestern University partner on sweat-reading hydration patch

March 2018   Northwestern University and Gatorade are developing a low-cost wearable skin patch that displays various colors to conveniently let the wearer know when they need to take a drink.

from Mobi Health News

Future of Medicine from a Leader in Biosensors

March 2018   Eric Topol, editor-in-chief of Medscape, and Prof. John Rogers, Northwestern University Professor, sit down to discuss bioelectronics, biosensors and the future of medicine.

from Medscape

BBC Reports -- Wearable tech aids stroke patients

February 2018   Scientists in the US are developing wearable sensors to speed up the recovery of stroke patients.

from BBC

Stretchable Electronics a "Game Changer" for Stroke Recovery Treatment

February 2018   A groundbreaking new wearable designed to be worn on the throat could be a game-changer in the field of stroke rehabilitation.

from Shirley Ryan Ability Lab

Northwestern Engineering Teams with Sports and Rehabilitation Leaders to Advance Sweat Analysis Technologies

February 2018   John Rogers’ microfluidic device heads out of the lab and into widespread distribution with Gatorade, AbilityLab, and the Air Force.

from Northwestern Engineering

Engadget Best of CES 2018 Award Winners

January 2018   Engadget's editors applied their extensive knowledge of the tech industry to scouring the show floor for the very best of the best at CES, choosing a winner in each of the 17 highly competitive categories based on level of innovation, design, market appeal and functionality.

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USA Today Coverage of UV Sense

January 2018   Our wireless, battery-free, millimeter-scale UV dosimeters featured in a CES best-of-show video and article by USA Today, January, 2018.

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Northwestern Researchers Develop Novel UV Sensor

January 2018   Our wireless, battery-free, millimeter-scale UV dosimeters are launched as a joint product with LOreal at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January, 2018.

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When Science Becomes Art

October 2017   Northwestern engineer John Rogers has elevated his cutting edge invention, a “Lab on the Skin,” to a rare level of cultural notoriety as part of a new exhibit in New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In addition to multiple versions of the device itself, the exhibit includes an animated video from Northwestern to illustrate the technology and showcase potential future applications.

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Bioelectronic Devices: Long-lived Recordings

March 2017   Rotenberg and Tian write a News and Views piece in Nature Biomedical Engineering that highlights our work on flexible, capacitively coupled electronics for chronic mapping of electrophysiology (Originally published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, March 2017)

from Nature Biomedical Engineering

A Minimally Invasive Tool to Measure Muscle Impairment

February 2017   A minimally invasive technique that accurately measures living muscle tissue could someday be used to diagnose and treat a wide range of movement disorders.

from Shirley Ryan Ability Lab

Yonggang Huang Elected to National Academy of Engineering

February 2017   Huang's work has led to major advances in stretchable and flexible electronics with biomedical applications.

from Northwestern Engineering

Researchers Develop Soft, Microfluidic ‘Lab on the Skin’ for Sweat Analysis

November 2016   The low-cost wearable electronic device developed by Professor John A. Rogers collects and analyzes sweat for health monitoring.

from Northwestern Engineering

3D Imaging of Muscles Points to Potential Treatments for Muscle Diseases and Injuries

November 2016   A new form of 3D imaging of muscles has allowed researchers to “see” inside muscle and trace long cables made up of a protein called collagen. Collagen cables are one culprit behind muscular diseases and injuries, so targeting them could provide treatments.

from Shirley Ryan Ability Lab

Four Professors Included in PNAS Special Materials Feature

October 2016   Work by Mark Hersam, Yonggang Huang, Chad Mirkin, and John Rogers appear in the Novel Materials Special Feature.

from Northwestern Engineering

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive an Honorary Professorship at Zhejiang University

October 2016   Zhejiang University (ZJU) is one of China’s top higher education institutions, as well as one of its oldest; its roots can be traced back to 1897 and the founding of the Qiushi Academy.

from Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics

Yonggang Huang to Receive Prager Medal

September 2016   The Society of Engineering Science bestows the award annually to a researcher with outstanding contributions in theoretical or experimental solid mechanics.

from Northwestern Engineering

Northwestern Engineering Names Winners of 2016 Cole-Higgins Awards

September 2016   Yonggang Huang and Ilya Mikhelson received this year’s teaching award; Alex Birdwell received the award for advising.

from Northwestern Engineering

RIC Stem-Cell Breakthroughs Promise Novel Treatments for Cerebral Palsy and Related Conditions

July 2016   Although the cause of CP remains a mystery, researchers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) are at the forefront of those working to understand, treat — and ultimately cure — this life-long neurological disorder.

from Shirley Ryan Ability Lab

Prof. Rogers is selected as the recipient of the 2016 IEEE EMBS Trailblazer Award

June 2016   IEEE is an association dedicated to advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity.

from Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics

Japanese Paper Art Inspires New 3-D Fabrication Method

September 2015   A Northwestern University research team has created complex 3-D micro- and nanostructures out of silicon found in advanced technologies using a new assembly method that uses cuts to advantage.

from Northwestern Engineering

Bioelectronics Pioneer John Rogers to Join Northwestern University

August 2015   Rogers, currently the Swanlund Chair at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will hold the inaugural Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professorship.

from Northwestern Engineering

Nanotech-Enabled Moisturizer Speeds Healing of Diabetic Skin Wounds

April 2015   Northwestern scientists have developed a new high-tech but simple ointment applied to the skin that may one day help diabetic patients heal ulcers on their feet.

from Northwestern Medicine

'Pop-up' Fabrication Technique Trumps 3-D Printing on Many Levels

January 2015   Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new fabrication technique to create 3-D micro- and nanostructures with many advantages over 3-D printing.

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