Pleased to deliver two talks today – an in-person presentation in the morning as part of the BioElectronic Therapeutics (BETx) conference at the Club de la Chasse et de la Nature, an amazing facility in Paris affiliated with
@RiceUniversity ; followed by a virtual seminar as part of a series hosted by the
@doddtra. For the first, titled ‘Bioelectronic Medicines: Degradable Optoelectronics for Electrotherapy,’ I highlighted unpublished work on light-controlled electrical stimulators capable of programmable polyphasic pulse generation and of deep (up to 10 cm) tissue and high voltage (up to 10 V) operation. In the second, titled ‘Wearable Sensors of Flux from the Skin - Applications in Health and Readiness for the Warfighter,’ I focused on our work in devices relevant to disease spread, environmental threats and injury recovery – monitoring mechano-acoustic signatures of body processes, and emission of gaseous emissions from and diffusion into the skin. The BETx conference included many impressive speakers – shout out specifically to Siddharth Krishnan, Polina Anikeeva,
@WeiGaoLab,
@SimoneSchuerle, Rylie Green,
@RabiaYazicigil,
@dk2955 and others (complete list here
biotechlaunchpad.rice.edu/pa…). Also, great to catch up with various journal editors at this same meeting: Valeria Caprettini (Nature Biomedical Engineering), Bruno Castro (Nature Materials), Uta Goebel (Advanced Healthcare Materials) and Liqian Wang (Nature). Thanks very much to the organizers –
@jrivnay,
@JTRobinsonLab,
@veiseho and
@cm_tringides – for giving me the chance to participate, for hosting spectacular dinner events and for some unusual opportunities, e.g. posing for a picture with a giant stuffed polar bear in the lobby of the building, and with two other famous JR’s in bioelectronics! Finally, thanks to Dr. Akbar Khan, M.Phil, Ph.D for the invitation to present in the DTRA seminar series – great interactions!