Project title: PRISMA
PRISMA is a revolutionary thin-film micropump realized with novel ceria-based oxides actuating materials in the frame of the FETOPEN BioWings project, which can be used as an innovative pumping system in wearable insulin delivery devices for the treatment of diabetes. The integration of the PRISMA micropump in insulin patch pumps addresses the 3 most important pain points that still keep the vast majority of diabetic patients away from this life-saving treatment:
- Size, which is more than two orders of magnitude smaller than state of the art.
- Higher drug delivery accuracy within the 5% range ensures the highest therapeutic efficacy.
- drastic reduction in energy consumption.
Besides the short-term vision to realise extremely compact and accurate patch pumps, the long term goal is to allow the realisation of multi-drug delivery systems, making real the much-lauded multi-hormone treatment.
Start date: 01-07-2022
Finish date: 30-06-2025