“A big contributing reason to why people respond differently to drugs is that they have different gut bacteria.”
NSF CAREER Award Winner
Bhushan's Gut Research
The National Science Foundation has awarded Abhinav Bhushan, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, a prestigious CAREER award to create better intestinal organoids and to use them to investigate how bacteria living in the gut impact the absorption of drugs into the body. The technology behind the project is a groundbreaking microfluidic device that Bhushan developed and has applied to study treatments for colon cancer.
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