Dr Roman Hovorka has recently received $2 million from Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International towards his research on the artificial pancreas. The funding will be used for a new multicentre study which will evaluate closed-loop insulin delivery (the artificial pancreas) in a larger group of 90 young subjects and adults with type 1 diabetes over […]
Overnight home use of artificial pancreas “feasible and beneficial”
Children with type 1 diabetes have been able to use pioneering artificial pancreas technology, developed at the University, for the first time overnight at home without the supervision of researchers. All the previous artificial pancreas trials, in hospitals and in home environments, have seen researchers strictly monitor patients. This latest trial, funded by the Juvenile […]
