Christopher Bettinger
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
2008 Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004 Master of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003 BS, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AIMBE
BME/MSE’s Christopher Bettinger, BME/ChemE’s Kris Dahl, and MechE’s Jessica Zhang have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)’s College of Fellows, Class of 2020. Zhang has also been elected as an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellow (2020).
Inverse
BME/MSE’s Christopher Bettinger was recently quoted in Inverse about Neuralink’s brain-machine interface (BMI). For decades, Neuralink has been developing thin, flexible electrodes that could be safely inserted into the brain by a robot; they plan to conduct human testing as early as 2020.
CMU Engineering
Christopher Bettinger leads an interdisciplinary project that could make brain aneurysm treatments more successful and more permanent.
Beyond Innovation, Bloomberg TV
MSE’s Chris Bettinger was recently interviewed by Michael Bancroft on Beyond Innovation, a show that airs on Bloomberg TV covering the world’s new and emerging technologies. He spoke about edible electronics, how they are created from melanin, how they work in the body, and the impact they could have on the future of drug delivery.
Correio Braziliense
BME/MSE’s Chris Bettinger commented on a new electronic healing device that is absorbed by the body developed by researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Washington. “There are many materials used by doctors that can be absorbed by our body, such as polymers and metals. These compounds degrade in the body with hydrolysis, a process that changes a given substance from water,” Bettinger explained.
FutureTech Podcasts
MSE/BME’s Christopher Bettinger, a member of both Next Manufacturing and the Bioengineered Organs Initiative, discussed bioengineered organs in a recent podcast on FutureTech Podcast.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
MSE/BME’s Chris Bettinger filed a patent for an ingestible capsule that can deliver medicine to the lower part of the digestive tract. The capsule is filled with medicine through a small hole, capped with a film of metal, and wired with a battery. When the precisely timed battery charge runs out, the film dissolves and the medicine is released.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Chris Bettinger discussed with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette his research on micro-electronics that can attach to soft tissues in the human body and that have medical applications.
Futurism
BME/MSE’s Christopher Bettinger and ECE’s Gary Fedder are part of a team that created a new soft hydrogel material for use in developing non-invasive brain implants.
The Verge
MSE/BME’s Christopher Bettinger talked with The Verge in a recent interview about developments in brain implant technology.
CMU Engineering
Materials science researchers at Carnegie Mellon develop new materials and processes to fabricate neural probes that mimic the mechanical properties of the nervous system.
Science Friday
BME/MSE’s Christopher Bettinger, who specializes in melanin applications for energy storage, collaborated with researchers from CUNY on discovering potential energy uses for the synthesized material. The research was featured on Science Friday.