The portable, wireless device could make wound therapy more accessible to patients in remote areas or with limited mobility. Initial preclinical results, published in the journal npj Biomedical Innovations, show the device successfully speeds up the healing process.

Designing a-Heal

A team of UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis researchers, led by UC Santa Cruz Baskin Engineering Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Marco Rolandi, designed a device that combines a camera, bioelectronics, and AI for faster wound healing. The integration in one device makes it a “closed-loop system”—one of the first of its kind for wound healing, as far as the researchers are aware.

“Our system takes all the cues from the body, and with external interventions, it optimizes the healing progress,” Rolandi said.