Carlo Giovanni Traverso MB, BChir, PhD

C. Giovanni Traverso, MB, BChir, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Gastroenterologist in the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his medical degrees from the University of Cambridge and completed his Internal Medicine residency training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He subsequently completed his fellowship in Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and joined the faculty of the MGH in 2014. He transitioned back to BWH in 2016.

Dr. Traverso completed his PhD thesis on novel technologies for the non-invasive detection of colorectal cancer from fecal DNA in the laboratory of Professor Bert Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins University. For his post-doctoral research, he transitioned to the fields of chemical and biomedical engineering in the laboratory of Professor Robert Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he developed a series of novel technologies for drug delivery as well as physiological sensing via the gastrointestinal tract. His current research program is focused on developing the next generation of drug delivery systems to enable efficient delivery of therapeutics through the gastrointestinal tract.