INTV: A Promise To David

Ed Damiano talks about his son David’s diagnosis with Type 1 Diabetes in 2000 that motivated him to try to create an artificial pancreas that could take over human care and provide high quality glucose management automatically for everyone.  Firas Ek-Khatib, Senior Research Scientist, discusses what he learned watching Ed’s interactions with David. The challenge is to create an algorithm to control diabetes that understands both the current readings and that particular person’s trends and how quickly they respond to doses of insulin and glucogon. Steven Russell says “Ed is really creating a surrogate for a parent’s loving care.”

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