Center for Personalized Health Monitoring

The Center for Personalized Health Monitoring (CPHM) accelerates the development and commercialization of low-cost, multi-function, wearable, wireless sensor systems for personalized health care and biometric monitoring. The CPHM:

  • Conducts basic and translational research across the technical roadmap for advanced personalized health monitoring
  • Trains the future and current workforce in key skills needed for the emerging digital health industry
  • Develops and integrates new technologies in collaboration with industry and clinical partners that pave the way to commercialize innovations and promote economic development

The CPHM consolidates critical expertise from polymer science and engineering, computer science, kinesiology, and neuroscience as well as from other departments and collaborators such as the UMass Medical School and industry.

Through collaboration, the CPHM is establishing a robust, vertically integrated ecosystem enabling rapid design, prototyping, and human interface testing under real-world conditions. The center iterates sensor development from concept through validation, to advanced manufacturing of flexible sensor platforms.

In addition, the CPHM provides an industry collaborative facility wherein industry can work directly with CPHM staff and researchers to develop and validate next generation health monitoring technologies and products.

ADDFab Facility
Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication

3D printing to support new technologies in biosensors and medical devices

AFM facility
Atomic Force Microscopy

Provide analytical and high resolution scanning probed based microscopy, including Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) related techniques as well as force measurements.

Device Characterization facility
Device Characterization

Gold-standard verification of wearable and point-of-care devices.

Device Fabrication Facility
Device Fabrication

Designed to have CMOS processing technologies serve as a key enabler towards personalized healthcare and preemptive medicine. We aim to develop smart and miniature devices with biomedical applications.

Electronic Materials
Electronic Materials

Provides state-of-the-art characterization related to photoluminescent, semiconductor, and conducting materials, including device fabrication and methods for determining charge carrier mobility and solar cell efficiency.

Exercise Intervention and Outcomes
Exercise Intervention and Outcomes

Perform clinical participant intake and evaluation, bone densitiometry & body composition, exercise testing, and exercise training

Summit 12000B-M 200 Probe
High Frequency Sensor Development

World Class Measurement Capability for Frequencies into the Terahertz Range and Beyond

Human Magnetic Resonance Center
Human Magnetic Resonance

Whole-body non-invasive imaging and spectroscopy technologies for academic and industry-based research.

Human Motion
Human Motion

High precision assessment of human movement, balance control and muscle activity with and without robot interaction. Used in both the assessment of human health and the calibration/validation of new sensor technologies.

Living Science
Living Science

Built home environment with kitchen and dining/living space. Allows for the evaluation of biosensor and human behavior in a natural environment.

mHealth facility
mHealthLab

Develops algorithms and processes for large scale wearable sensor networks to support the development of novel hardware.

Nanofabrication Facility
Nanofabrication Cleanroom

Device design, modeling and prototype testing in functional architectures taking best advantage of the specific hierarchical nanomanufacturing capabilities.

Roll to Roll Fabrication and Processing Facility
Roll-to-Roll Fabrication and Processing

Custom, moving web-based tools for translational advanced materials & nanomanufacturing processes

Room Calorimeter
Room Calorimeter

Two separate chambers-including the largest single chamber in the U.S-used to conduct long duration (24 hours +) assessments of energy expenditure as well as the calibration/validation of wearable technologies.

Sensor Integration
Sensor Integration

Miniaturizing systems in preparation for human testing.

Sleep Monitoring
Sleep Monitoring

Equipped with EEG systems for recording sleep physiology (sleep staging). A central control room will allow for on-line observation and monitoring of sleep in populations from infants to the elderly.

X-Ray Scattering Facility Image
X-Ray Scattering

Housing several instruments dedicated to the structural analysis of crystalline materials, the determination of highly periodic morphologies in self-assembled systems over a large length scale range.