A Professor’s Son Inspired Him To Invent a Bionic Pancreas
Ed Damiano’s breakthrough automated insulin delivery device, the iLet, could transform life for people with type 1 diabetes
BU faculty are developing novel technologies, based on mechanisms derived from bacteria and other cells, that can be used to detect a wide range of biologically relevant compounds; building smart devices (e.g., the bionic pancreas) that take advantage of current technologies in ways that will transform healthcare; designing inexpensive, field-deployable devices that can perform sophisticated amplification and detection of genetic material and other analytes in low-resource environments.
Building and studying novel, genetically encoded fluorophores to measure neural activity; engineering nucleic acids that sense and amplify molecular cues; creating and using methods for measurement of mechanical processes and properties at length scales ranging from nm to cm; and constructing novel quantum dots that are suitable for in vivo imaging.
Ed Damiano’s breakthrough automated insulin delivery device, the iLet, could transform life for people with type 1 diabetes
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