Circulatronics and the curious case of SWEDs - Dr Subham Yadav

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📚 Now, if you’ve been following our journey, you’ll remember that we previously covered the groundbreaking Nature Biotechnology paper on Circulatronics from Dr. Deblina Sarkar’s Lab at the MIT Media Lab. (🔗 Link to that episode will be in our show notes below!)

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A non-surgical Brain implant (Sarkar et al 2025)

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But today… we’re diving deeper — straight into the heart of the discovery itself. ❤️‍🔥

🎧 Hosted by our very own producer — Mayukh Mukhopadhyay — this episode, titled “Circulatronics and the Curious Case of SWEDs,” brings us an extraordinary guest: Dr. Shubham Yadav — the first author of that Nature Biotech paper, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, University and ETH Zurich. 🧠🇨🇭

Let’s get to know him a bit.
Dr. Yadav is a researcher whose curiosity doesn’t just light up the lab — it builds new worlds of possibility. A dual-degree graduate in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, an S.M. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT, and a recent PhD from the MIT Media Lab, he’s pioneering ways to make electronics circulate naturally through the body — no surgery, no wires, just innovation flowing with life itself.

His creation — Circulatronics — uses wireless, subcellular-scale photovoltaic devices that travel through the bloodstream, find neural inflammation, and settle right where treatment is needed. 🌐✨ Think of it as science fiction turning into biological poetry.

Now at ETH Zurich, he’s pushing this technology toward real-world neurotherapeutic applications — bridging brain, biology, and bytes.

🎙️ So today, we will take on a journey through Circulatronics, the intriguing universe of SWEDs, and the deeper question hiding beneath this invention.

💭 What happens when technology stops being implanted — and starts becoming alive within us?

🌟 A huge thank you to Dr. Shubham Yadav, Dr. Deblina Sarkar, and the Nature Biotechnology team for their remarkable contribution to science — published in one of the most prestigious Nature Portfolio academic journals in the world.

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Reference

Yadav, S., Lee, R. X., Kajale, S. N., Joy, B., Saha, M., Patel, P., Bull, L., Cao, S., Mitragotri, S., Bono, D., & Sarkar, D. (2025). A nonsurgical brain implant enabled through a cell–electronics hybrid for focal neuromodulation. Nature Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02809-3