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Artificial pancreas: These companies are racing to make one

May 25, 2017 By Chris Newmarker

Medical device companies are close to achieving the holy grail of diabetes treatment: a combined glucose sensor, control algorithm and insulin infusion device that effectively acts as an “artificial pancreas.”

We explain more in the newest video from editors at Drug Delivery Business’s sister publication Medical Design & Outsourcing. (And for a deeper dive, check out our recent roundup of companies in the race.)

Filed Under: Auto-injectors, Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, mHealth (Mobile Health) Tagged With: admetsys, animas, artificialpancreas, Beta Bionics, Bigfoot Biomedical, defymed, DexCom Inc., Diabetes, Insulet, medtech, Medtronic, Semma Therapeutics, Tandem Diabetes Care, typezerotechnologies, universityofvirginia

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About Chris Newmarker

Chris Newmarker is the executive editor of WTWH Media life science's news websites and publications including MassDevice, Medical Design & Outsourcing and more. A professional journalist of 18 years, he is a veteran of UBM (now Informa) and The Associated Press whose career has taken him from Ohio to Virginia, New Jersey and, most recently, Minnesota. He’s covered a wide variety of subjects, but his focus over the past decade has been business and technology. He holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from Ohio State University. Connect with him on LinkedIn or email at [email protected].

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