Researcher Launches Company To Bring Bionic Pancreas To Market.

reports that “the race is on for what may be the biggest innovation in decades for Type 1 diabetes management – the bionic pancreas – and” yesterday, “one of the lead researchers in the field announced at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting that he’s launched a company to bring that invention to market.” According to Time, “Ed Damiano, a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who is developing a bionic pancreas...has spun his academic research into a company called Beta Bionics,” which “recently...secured $5 million from the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, which manufactures the insulin used in the device.” http://time.com/4278068/bionic-pancreas-company/