Description: Use of injected or targeted magnetic nanoparticles that transduce externally applied alternating magnetic fields into local heating, mechanical force, or chemical release to modulate neural or endocrine activity without wires.
PREFERRED. Anikeeva's Bioelectronics Group engineers minimally invasive, multifunctional fiber-based neural probes (combining optical, electrical, and microfluidic channels) and magnetic nanoparticle transducers that enable wireless, gene- and wire-free magnetothermal, magnetomechanical, and chemomagnetic neuromodulation, with applications spanning deep-brain stimulation and gut-brain circuit interrogation.