Nan, Kewang
Feig, Vivian R.
Ying, Binbin
Howarth, Julia G.
Kang, Ziliang http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7010-6308
Yang, Yiyuan
Traverso, Giovanni http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7851-4077
Article History
Accepted: 28 July 2022
First Online: 14 September 2022
Competing interests
: Financial competing interests for G.T. that may be interpreted as related to the current manuscript include current and prior funding from Novo Nordisk, Hoffman La Roche, Oracle, Draper Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, NIH (NIBIB and NCI), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Karl van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor, MIT and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as well as employment by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Personal financial interests include equity/stock (Lyndra Therapeutics, Suono Bio, Vivtex, Celero Systems, Syntis Bio), board of directors member and/or consultant (Lyndra Therapeutics, Novo Nordisk, Suono Bio, Vivtex, Celero Systems, Syntis Bio) and royalties (past and potentially in the future) from licensed and/or optioned intellectual property (Lyndra Therapeutics, Novo Nordisk, Suono Bio, Vivtex, Celero Systems, Syntis Bio, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Mass General Brigham Innovation). Complete details of all relationships for profit and not-for-profit for G.T. can be found in the supplementary information. K.N. and G.T. report a patent application (U.S. Provisional Application no. 63/301,491) describing a flexible silicone liquid-metal-filled manometry system. G.T. reports the following patents and/or patent applications: U.S. patent no. 10,149,635 describing ingestible devices for physiological status monitoring, U.S. patent nos. 10,182,985, 10,413,507, 10,517,819, 10,517,820, 10,532,027, 10,596,110, 10,610,482, 10,716,751 and 10,716,752 describing gastric residence structures and materials supporting safe residence and GI transit, U.S. patent nos. 10,693,544 and 10,879,983 describing methods for charging of GI devices through RF transmission, U.S. patent no. 11,207,272 describing a device with gastric anchoring capabilities and the capacity for electrical stimulation and sensing, U.S. Provisional Application patent no. 16/152,785 describing a flexible piezoelectric device that can sense deformation in the GI tract, U.S. Provisional Application patent no. 16/207,647 a gastric resident electronic device, U.S. Provisional Application patent no. 17/470,942 describing a gastric resident system capable of sensing radiation and toxic agents and releasing therapeutics, U.S. Provisional Application patent no. 63/246,761 describing a nasogastric system for biochemical sensing and U.S. Provisional Application patent no. 63/294,902 describing a system for energy harvesting from the GI tract. All other authors declare no competing interests.
Free to read: This content has been made available to all.