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ArticleCurrent opinion in biomedical engineering2025

Recent advances in facilitating the translation of bioelectronic medicine therapies.

Alex Baldwin, Gregory States, Victor Pikov, Pallavi Gunalan, Sahar Elyahoodayan, Kevin Kilgore, Ellis Meng

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Article in Current opinion in biomedical engineering, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Building and Sustaining Open-Source Medical Device Projects.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Alex BaldwinAlfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA.
Gregory StatesDepartment of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Case Western Reserve University and The MetroHealth System, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Victor PikovMedipace Inc., Pasadena, CA, USA.
Pallavi GunalanAlfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA.
Sahar ElyahoodayanAlfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA.
Kevin KilgoreDepartment of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Case Western Reserve University and The MetroHealth System, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Ellis MengAlfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA.

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NINDS NIH HHS U41 NS129436NINDS NIH HHS U41 NS129514
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bioelectronic medicine is a growing field which involves directly interfacing with the vagus, sacral, enteric, and other autonomic nerves to treat conditions. Therapies based on bioelectronic medicine could address previously intractable diseases and provide an alternative to pharmaceuticals. However, translating a bioelectronic medicine therapy to the clinic requires overcoming several challenges, including titrating stimulation parameters to an individual's physiology, selectively stimulating target nerves without inducing off-target activation or block, and improving accessibility to clinically approved devices. This review describes recent progress towards solving these problems, including advances in mapping and characterizing the human autonomic nervous system, new sensor technology and signal processing techniques to enable closed-loop therapies, new methods for selectively stimulating autonomic nerves without inducing off-target effects, and efforts to develop open-source implantable devices. Recent commercial successes in bringing bioelectronic medicine therapies to the clinic are highlighted showing how addressing these challenges can lead to novel therapies.

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PMID39896232
PMCPMC11781353

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