'Thanks to COVID, this has become an area of more interest to investors.”
, Costanzo, an emeritus professor of physiology and biophysics who cofounded VCU's Smell and Taste Disorders Center in the 1980s, one of the country's first such clinics, may consider this effort to be his most significant professional accomplishment.
He spent several years studying olfactory loss and looking into the viability of biological regeneration before developing a technological solution in the 1990s.Nature.The study took off in 2011 when he started conversing with his colleague Daniel Coelho, a VCU professor of otolaryngology and cochlear implant expert. They immediately noticed that a scent prosthetic could be analogous to a cochlear implant.
Besides Dr. Costanzo and Dr. Coelho, many people support bionic nose research —an electronic nose expert in England, several clinicians in Boston, and a businessman in Indiana. To avoid creating the false impression that a commercial device will soon be ready, Costanzo believes it would be better to be wary. But still, he doesn't want to hide his optimism from the odor-loss sufferers.
The team is currently working on improving the sensors' ability to detect more than a few odors and determining the optimal way to communicate with the brain.
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