Skin Interfaced Wearable Sweat Biosensors for Personalized Healthcare - Wei Gao 

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Rubbery Electronics: Skin-Interfaced Wearable Sweat Biosensors for Personalized Healthcare
Professor Wei Gao
Assistant Professor, California Institue of Technology, USA
Group Website: www.gao.caltech.edu
ABSTRACT:
The rising research interest in personalized medicine promises to revolutionize traditional medical practices. This presents a tremendous opportunity for developing wearable devices toward predictive analytics and treatment. In this talk, I will introduce our recent advances in developing fully-integrated skin-interfaced flexible biosensors for non-invasive molecular analysis. Such wearable biosensors can continuously, selectively, and accurately measure a wide spectrum of sweat analytes including metabolites, electrolytes, hormones, drugs, and other small molecules. These devices also allow us to gain real-time insight into the sweat secretion and gland physiology. The clinical value of our wearable sensing platforms is evaluated through multiple human studies involving both healthy and patient populations toward physiological monitoring, disease diagnosis, and drug monitoring. This talk will also feature our very recent works on laser-engraved lab on the skin and biofuel powered battery-free electronic skin toward metabolic/nutritional management as well as dynamic stress monitoring. These wearable and flexible devices could open the door to a wide range of personalized monitoring, diagnostic, and therapeutic applications.
BIOGRAPHY:
Wei Gao is an Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering in Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology. Originally from China, he earned his BS in mechanical engineering at Huazhong University of Science & Technology and his master’s in precision instruments from Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at University of California, San Diego in 2014 as a Jacobs Fellow and HHMI International Student Research Fellow. In 2014-2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
He a recipient of IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award, Sensors Young Investigator Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Global List (TR35) and ACS Young Investigator Award (Division of Inorganic Chemistry). He is also a member of Global Young Academy and ACS Nano Junior Fellow. His research interests include wearable devices, biosensors, flexible electronics, micro/nanorobotics, and nanomedicine. He has authored 100 publications in these fields and his articles have been cited more than 11,500 times (h-index: 56) as of April 2020. His work has been covered in a number of media worldwide including Nature, Science, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Time, Fortune, The Economist, Washington Post, NBC News, Discovery News, BBC News, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Times, LA Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Fox News, Xinhua, Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, MIT Technology Review, etc.