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ELECTRONIC
MOSQUITO
A MEMS-based
Blood Sampling Device for Blood Analysis and Drug Delivery
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The research project "Electronic Mosquito" (or simply "e-MosquitoTM") is a
Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS)-based device for semi-invasive blood sampling and analysis, which
resembles the operation of a mosquito. At a miniature scale the proposed
system does penetrate the skin to extract a static blood sample for
further analysis. The extent of this penetration, and particularly
the fact that it can be made painless, is particularly attractive for
such applications as automated glucose analysis for closed-loop control
of insulin infusion (artificial pancreas), continuous drug monitoring,
or even periodic DNA analysis for security and identification purposes. |
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| Press Releases: |
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Camera in a pill offers doctors a look at your inner space. In
The Globe & Mail, April 2005 |
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Nanotechnology Takes Medical Intervention to a New Level. In: R &
D Magazine, October 2004. |
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Taking Control of Diabetes: "Electronic Mosquito"
gives flight to an innovative way to measure glucose levels and deliver
insulin. In: Canadian Microelectronic Corporation (CMC) magazine
IMPACT Success Stories, January 2004. |
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| Awards: |
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eMosquitoTM:
An Actuated Microneedle for Automated Blood Sampling, Giorgio
Gattiker. University of Calgary MEMS Scholarship 2004 Winner. |
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| Related Technical
Publications: |
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G. Gattiker, M. Mintchev, and K.V.I.S. Kaler, A MicraGEM-based
Microactuator Chip for Blood Sampling and Drug Delivery Applications,
presented at ESSDERC-ESSCIRC 2005, Grenoble, France, 2005. |
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Gattiker G, Kaler KVIS, and Mintchev MP.
Electronic Mosquito: Designing a Semi-Invasive Microsystem for Blood
Sampling, Analysis and Drug Delivery Applications. Journal of Microsystem Technologies,
2005, (in print). |
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Giorgio Gattiker, Karan Kaler, and Martin
Mintchev. Microactuation of Suspended MEMS Beams. In: Proc. of the 2005
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2005), Kobe,
Japan, May 23 - 26, 2005. |
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Gattiker G, Kaler
KVIS, and Mintchev MP. “ELECTRONIC MOSQUITO”: Prototyping a MEMS Device
for Blood Sampling, Analysis, and Drug Delivery Purposes. In: Proc. of
the 9th International Conference on the Commercialization of Micro and Nano Systems (COMS),
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Aug 29 – Sept 2, 2004. |
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Gattiker GE, Kaler KVIS and Mintchev MP.
Electronic Mosquito: Designing a Semi-Invasive Microsystem
for Blood Sampling, Analysis and Drug Delivery Applications. In: Proc. of the
IEEE Symposium on MEMS Design, Test, Integration and Packaging, Montreux,
Switzerland, June 2004. |
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Gattiker G,
Aggarwal P, Kaler KVIS, Mintchev MP. Electronic Mosquito: A
Semi-Invasive MEMS for Blood Sampling, Analysis and Drug Delivery. In:
Proceedings of the ASM/IEEE International Conference on Bio-, Micro-,
Nanosystems, N.Y., N.Y., July 7-10, 2003. |
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LaFrenz J,
Gattiker G, Kaler KVIS, and Mintchev MP. Starting from Scratch: Creating
an Information Technology Infrastructure for MEMS-Related Research and
Development. International Journal of Information Theories and
Applications, 10(3), 330-6, 2003. |
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| Provisional
Patent Application: |
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Gattiker G, Kaler KVIS, Mintchev MP.
“Electronic Mosquito”: A Semi-Invasive Automated Microsystem for Blood
Sampling, Analysis and Drug Delivery Applications. US Provisional,
November 2003. |
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Funding: |
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CMC:
Canadian Microelectronic Corporation |
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NSERC: National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
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COVENTOR: MEMS Software for design
of RF, Microfluidics, Sensors, and Optical Devices |
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University of Calgary |
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Martin P. Mintchev, Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor of Electrical
Engineering |
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Karan
V.I.S. Kaler, Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Giorgio Gattiker, PhD Candidate, Electrical Engineering |
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Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Calgary
2500, University Drive, N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
Phone: +1-403-220-5806; Fax: +1-403-282-6855 |
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