Medical assistant helping a surgeon put on sterile clothes in an operating room.
Medical assistant helping a surgeon put on sterile clothes in an operating room.

Biomedical Engineering’s Andrew Shoffstal discusses new technological neuromodulation therapies

Health Beat: Injectrode to better treat neurodegenerative diseases

WFMZ: Andrew Shoffstal, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, discussed technology that could allow for the treatment of neuromodulation therapies without medically invasive surgeries. “This electrically conductive ‘goo’, as we call it, could be injected into the body and it would form an electrically conductive interface with nerve tissue,” he said.