With an innate passion for bridging technology and medicine, Eugenijus Kaniusas, a full professor of Biomedical Engineering at TU Wien, connects diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to deliver a truly personalized medicine to treat, for instance, chronic pain. Born in Lithuania, graduated in Austria, Eugenijus is now attracting interdisciplinary and global thinkers at the newly established Institute of Biomedical Electronics. His current research includes auricular vagus nerve stimulation, prosthetics, perioperative monitoring, empathy assessment, and the development of wearable theranostic devices that become active when physiology ends and pathology starts. Eugenijus is dedicated to professional teaching in Biomedical Sensors, Instrumentation, and Biophysics, backed up by his three book volumes. He serves currently as Dean of Academic Affairs Biomedical Engineering at TU Wien.
The electric pill to treat chronic ailments
Chronic pain affects one in five people, devastating them, with two-thirds still in pain, with severe side effects despite the conventional treatments - “Did we surrender?”. No, let’s directly approach the brain responsible for pain perception. Electrical stimulation of nerves projecting to the brain is a promising solution, like an electric pill administered to relieve pain. The stimulation by the pill restores the regulatory balance of the human body - derailed in chronic ailments - and is synchronized with our inner body rhythms to find personal time space when brain gates are wide open to receive the stimulus. It sounds as a fiction that turns into reality here, at TU Wien.
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