A huge thank you and congratulations to all who participated in our 2011 open innovation contest! Yet again we feel this effort is an example of “crowdsourcing” at its best — culling the brightest concepts from across the community to help improve life with diabetes.
Jeffrey Brewer, President and CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), recently stated:
“This contest has created a great deal of buzz within the diabetes industry, really helping to…
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Luciana Urruty is a 26-year-old former textile designer and assistant professor in the School of Design of Uruguay. Yes, she lives in Uruguay and speaks Spanish and a little English. After 5 years of work, Luciana decided to quit the fashion industry in order to pursue something that gave her more purpose in life.
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 15, Luciana was inspired when she saw our contest video earlier this year. She…
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Gary Scheiner is not only a well-known diabetes educator and author of the popular book Think Like a Pancreas, he is also a type 1 diabetic for the past 25 years. He has used every pump and CGM on the market (he’s currently rocking a Medtronic pump and DexCom CGM) and has also mastered the art of Symlin, another injectable drug used to manage type 1 diabetes.
He’s back as one of our expert judges…
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AmyT on
April 15, 2010
Robert Oringer is currently Co-Chairman and Board Director of AMG Medical Inc. in Canada, which distributes professional and home healthcare products. But he’s also the man who pioneered private-label diabetes products in the US, including syringes, glucose products, and testing supplies.
One might call Robert a serial diabetes entrepreneur — and at least as importantly, father of two teenage boys with type 1 diabetes. We catch up with him today in his role as a…
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We had two video entries in this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge presenting the same idea: why not offer colored insulin, which would not only be useful but potentially life-saving for us folks who live on the stuff?
The idea is not entirely new. Diabetes Health magazine had a series of articles / letters to the editor discussing the possibility last year. As you can see by our contest entries, there are two pillars to the…
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