We develop and evaluate enabling technologies for analyzing excreta for critical health data, thereby unlocking the potential for improving individual health.
Our research focuses on the following areas:
- The sampling toilet—a hands-free, flush-and-forget technology that collects and packages human excreta for individual analysis.
- Automated tracking of bowel movement characteristics, which are important markers of digestive health.
- Technologies to rapidly and conveniently measure stool markers of gut health and disease.
These efforts leverage our team’s expertise in sanitation, sensors, and diagnostics, combined with cutting-edge advancements in biomarker discovery and clinical diagnostics, in collaboration with leading researchers across the U.S.
Technologies developed by the Duke Smart Toilet Lab have been licensed to Coprata Inc., a start-up co-founded by Sonia Grego and Brian Stoner, to advance to commercial products.