The National Institutes of Health has awarded a R01 grant to a multi-institutional team to develop and evaluate a pregnancy-specific Artificial Pancreas in a sequence of in-clinic and transitional environment clinical trials. The researchers hope that the first-in-the-nation studies will lead to a safe and effective at-home clinical trial with an extension phase to the end of pregnancy.
The project brings together the experienced engineering team of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Cambridge, MA), and a clinical research consortium made up of specialists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, NY), the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), and the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute (Santa Barbara, CA).
“This work will bring our previous advancements in artificial pancreas technology to the next level, and will be the first project of its kind in the United States,” said Principal Investigator Dr. Eyal Dassau, Director of the Biomedical Systems Engineering Research Group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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