Persperion’s noninvasive glucose-sensing test strip requires only sweat from the touch of a finger to measure a user’s glucose level, and provide a readout on the handheld device. [Prototype rendering courtesy of Persperion.]
A startup working on sensor technology developed at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering brought in $4 million in venture capital seed funding.The team aims to commercialize a sweat-based diagnostic platform technology. The initial product, a non-nvasive glucose test, uses omnipresent sweat on fingertips to measure glucose levels. This removes the need for people with diabetes to use painful fingerpricks.
Lu Yin and Alan Liu lead Persperion in developing the technology developed in a nanoengineering lab at UCSD. They aim to develop something that can detect a variety of biomarkers through sweat, beginning with glucose levels. This sensor uses trace amounts of sweat…