Philipp Gutruf

Associate Department Head of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Member of the Graduate Faculty

Bioscience Research Labs 319

520.621.7526
pgutruf@arizona.edu

Philipp Gutruf is an associate professor and the associate department head in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow at the University of Arizona. He received his postdoctoral training in the John A. Rogers Research Group at Northwestern University and received his PhD in 2016 at RMIT University (Australia). In the last 5 years he has authored over 40 peer reviewed journal articles, received four patents and his work has been highlighted on eight journal covers. He has also been the recipient of prestigious scholarships and fellowships such as the International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and the Australian Nano Technology Network Travel Fellowship. His research group focuses on creating devices that intimately integrate with biological systems by combining innovations in soft materials, photonics and electronics to create systems with broad impact on health diagnostics, therapeutics and exploratory neuroscience.

Degrees

  • PhD
    • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
    • Transforming flexible devices to stretchable oxide-based electronics, photonics, and sensors
  • BASc
    • Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences

Interests

Teaching

Teaching design oriented hands on skills for biomedical engineers.

Research

Creating devices that intimately integrate with biological systems. Combining innovations in soft materials, photonics and electronics to create systems with broad impact on health diagnostics and neuroscience.

Courses

View the full course list in UA Profiles.

Selected Publications

Chapters

  • Burton, A., Stuart, T., Ausra, J., & Gutruf, P. (2020). Smartphone for monitoring basic vital signs: Miniaturized, near-field communication based devices for chronic recording of health. In Smartphone for monitoring basic vital signs: Miniaturized, near-field communication based devices for chronic recording of health(pp 177-208). Elsevier.

Journals/Publications

  • Burton, A., Wang, Z., Song, D., Tran, S., Hanna, J., Ahmad, D., Bakall, J., Clausen, D., Anderson, J., Peralta, R., Sandepudi, K., Benedetto, A., Yang, E., Basrai, D., Miller, L. E., Tresch, M. C., & Gutruf, P. (2023). Fully implanted battery-free high power platform for chronic spinal and muscular functional electrical stimulation. Nature communications, 14(1), 7887.
  • Stuart, T., Farley, M., Amato, J., Thien, R., Hanna, J., Bhatia, A., Clausen, D. M., & Gutruf, P. (2023). Biosymbiotic platform for chronic long-range monitoring of biosignals in limited resource settings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(50), e2307952120.
  • Stuart, T., Jeang, W. J., Slivicki, R. A., Brown, B. J., Burton, A., Brings, V. E., Alarcón-Segovia, L. C., Agyare, P., Ruiz, S., Tyree, A., Pruitt, L., Madhvapathy, S., Niemiec, M., Zhuang, J., Krishnan, S., Copits, B. A., Rogers, J. A., Gereau, R. W., Samineni, V. K., , Bandodkar, A. J., et al. (2023). Wireless, Battery-Free Implants for Electrochemical Catecholamine Sensing and Optogenetic Stimulation. ACS nano, 17(1), 561-574.
  • Stuart, T., Yin, X., Chen, S. J., Farley, M., McGuire, D. T., Reddy, N., Thien, R., DiMatteo, S., Fumeaux, C., & Gutruf, P. (2023). Context-aware electromagnetic design for continuously wearable biosymbiotic devices. Biosensors & bioelectronics, 228, 115218.
  • Yin, R. T., Chen, S. W., Benjamin Lee, K., Choi, Y. S., Koo, J., Yang, Q., Napolitano, M. A., Ausra, J., Holleran, T. J., Lapiano, J. B., Alex Waters, E., Brikha, A., Kowalik, G., Miniovich, A. N., Knight, H. S., Russo, B. A., Kiss, A., Murillo-Berlioz, A., Efimova, T., , Haney, C. R., et al. (2023). Open thoracic surgical implantation of cardiac pacemakers in rats. Nature protocols, 18(2), 374-395.
  • Ausra, J., Madrid, M., Yin, R. T., Hanna, J., Arnott, S., Brennan, J. A., Peralta, R., Clausen, D., Bakall, J. A., Efimov, I. R., & Gutruf, P. (2022). Wireless, fully implantable cardiac stimulation and recording with on-device computation for closed-loop pacing and defibrillation. Science advances, 8(43), eabq7469.
  • Rahman, M. A., Cai, L., Tawfik, S. A., Tucker, S., Burton, A., Perera, G., Spencer, M. J., Walia, S., Sriram, S., Gutruf, P., & Bhaskaran, M. (2022). Nicotine Sensors for Wearable Battery-Free Monitoring of Vaping. ACS sensors, 7(1), 82-88.
  • Stuart, T., Hanna, J., & Gutruf, P. (2022). Wearable devices for continuous monitoring of biosignals: Challenges and opportunities. APL bioengineering, 6(2), 021502.
  • Ausra, J., Munger, S. J., Azami, A., Burton, A., Peralta, R., Miller, J. E., & Gutruf, P. (2021). Wireless battery free fully implantable multimodal recording and neuromodulation tools for songbirds. Nature communications, 12(1), 1968.
  • Ausra, J., Wu, M., Zhang, X., Vázquez-Guardado, A., Skelton, P., Peralta, R., Avila, R., Murickan, T., Haney, C. R., Huang, Y., Rogers, J. A., Kozorovitskiy, Y., & Gutruf, P. (2021). Wireless, battery-free, subdermally implantable platforms for transcranial and long-range optogenetics in freely moving animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(30).
  • Burton, A., Won, S. M., Sohrabi, A. K., Stuart, T., Amirhossein, A., Kim, J. U., Park, Y., Gabros, A., Rogers, J. A., Vitale, F., Richardson, A. G., & Gutruf, P. (2021). Wireless, battery-free, and fully implantable electrical neurostimulation in freely moving rodents. Microsystems & nanoengineering, 7, 62.
  • Cai, L., & Gutruf, P. (2021). Soft, wireless and subdermally implantable recording and neuromodulation tools. Journal of neural engineering, 18(4).
  • Cai, L., Burton, A., Gonzales, D. A., Kasper, K. A., Azami, A., Peralta, R., Johnson, M., Bakall, J. A., Barron Villalobos, E., Ross, E. C., Szivek, J. A., Margolis, D. S., & Gutruf, P. (2021). Osseosurface electronics-thin, wireless, battery-free and multimodal musculoskeletal biointerfaces. Nature communications, 12(1), 6707.
  • Gutruf, P., Utzinger, U., & Subbian, V. (2021). Moving from Pedagogy to Andragogy in Biomedical Engineering Design: Strategies for Lab-at-Home and Distance Learning. Biomedical engineering education, 1(2), 301-305.
  • Stuart, T., Cai, L., Burton, A., & Gutruf, P. (2021). Wireless and battery-free platforms for collection of biosignals. Biosensors & bioelectronics, 178, 113007.

Proceedings Publications

  • Nirantar, S., Ahmed, T., Ren, G., Gutruf, P., Xu, C., Bhaskaran, M., Walia, S., & Sriram, S. (2019, 2019). Semiconductor-Free Field-Emission Nanoelectronics: Application in Air-Channel Transistors. In 2019 International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 1-2.

Presentations

  • Miller, J. E., Gutruf, P., Peralta, R., Burton, A., Azami, A., Ausra, J., Munger, S. J., & Ibrahim, N. (2020, November). Effects of Optogenetic Manipulation on Song in a Zebra Finch Model.. Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS).
  • Gutruf, P. (2019, 03). Wireless battery free subdermally implantable neuromodulation and recording tools. BIOEL 2019. Kirchberg, Austria.
  • Gutruf, P. (2019, 04). Fully Implantable Wireless Battery-Free Optoelectronic Systems for Multimodal Optogenetic Neuromodulation. MRS Spring Phoenix.
  • Gutruf, P. (2019, 11). Wireless, subdermally implantable neuromodulation tools for chronic recording and stimulation in freely moving subjects. Neuroscience.
  • Gutruf, P. (2019, 12). Soft, wireless and battery free sensors and photonics for broad application in the assessment and stimulation of biological systems. ICBME.