Amay Bandodkar
North Carolina State University, NC·Biomedical Engineering·Early-career
Wounds that refuse to heal are a large and growing global health burden, driving long hospital stays, amputations and deaths. Today a clinician usually judges healing by looking at the wound, a subjective call that can delay treatment.
- Fields
Biomedical Engineering
Engineering
Materials Science
- Topics
smart bandage
chronic wounds
wound healing
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Mar 2031
What they work on
- Develop non-toxic sensor arrays based on biofuel cells, devices that convert a chemical reaction into an electrical signal, to detect molecular biomarkers of healing in wound exudate.
- Engineer high-performance thin-film batteries composed entirely of non-toxic, wound-compatible materials so the bandage can run without bulky power sources.
- Integrate sensors, batteries, nature-inspired microfluidic channels and wireless electronics into a single smart bandage capable of autonomous, real-time wound assessment.
- Validate the integrated bandage in a murine wound model and analyze the sensor streams with statistical and AI/ML models to identify early indicators of impaired healing.
More about the research
Bandages with built-in sensors could instead report on healing continuously, but existing versions are bulky and often built from materials that may be toxic to tissue, which has kept them out of everyday care.
Why it matters
People living with chronic wounds, who face high costs and serious amputation risk, could benefit from a comfortable bandage that flags poor healing early enough for timely treatment at home. Building the device from non-toxic materials addresses a safety barrier that has limited existing smart bandages. The underlying sensor, battery, microfluidic and low-power electronics advances may also carry over to personalized diagnostics and defense applications.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
North Carolina State University: 40 labs on PI Pages, $717M a year on research, 603 research doctorates a year.
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