Event Details

Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

Fri, Nov 08, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: RTH 109
Speaker: John Rogers, Ph.D., Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Mterials Science and Engineering, Biomedical and Neurological Surgery

Talk Title: Soft, Skin-Interfaced Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for Health Monitoring

Abstract: Over the last decade, a convergence of new concepts in materials science, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and advanced manufacturing has led to the emergence of diverse, classes of 'biocompatible' electronic and microfluidic systems with skin-like physical properties and wireless operational capabilities.  A broad range of clinical-grade sensors of physiological health can be deployed into these platforms.  The resulting technologies address health care challenges from the earliest to the latest stages of life, with demonstrated uses in both high and low resource settings, at the hospital and in the home.  This talk presents an overview of the most recent fundamental and translational activities in this area, currently in progress at the Querrey-Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University and at several associated companies. 

Biography: Professor John A. Rogers began his career at Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997 and served as Director from the end of 2000 to 2002.  He then spent thirteen years at the University of Illinois, as the Swanlund Chair Professor and Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory.  In 2016, he joined Northwestern University as the Simpson/Querrey Professor, where he is also Director of the Institute for Bioelectronics.  He has co-authored more than 900 papers and he is co-inventor on more than 100 patents.  His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), the NAS James Prize for Science and Technology Integration (2022) and the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Medal (2024).  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  

Host: Maral Mousavi