Artificial pancreas awaiting FDA approval for clinical testing

07.12.2011 [11:57]
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Baku, December 7 (AZERTAC). A group of parents of children with diabetes who formed a non-profit foundation in 1970 called the Juvenile Diabetes Research Association (JDRA) has raised almost 1.5 billion for diabetes research, and is close to their goal of developing an artificial pancreas.

In 2006, the JDRA funded a consortium of engineers, mathematicians and diabetes experts to collaborate on computer programs for a possible artificial pancreas. In early 2010, the JDRA hired Animas Corporation, a provider of high tech insulin pumps, to assist in the development of the automated insulin delivery system.

Animas quickly recruited about a dozen "world class" scientists and engineers to work on the project, which it dubbed Project Manya. The collaboration resulted in the development of a first generation wireless insulin delivery system that functions like a human pancreas - the gland which produces chemicals necessary for digestion and blood sugar regulation, including the hormone insulin.

Artificial pancreas awaiting FDA approval for clinical testing

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