Bloodless revolution: non-invasive monitoring for chronic diseases

Don’t like needles? Help is at hand!

In this talk Dr Adelina Ilie will introduce pioneering non-invasive, wearable technology to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and management of chronic conditions, starting with diabetes – no such technology currently exists on the market. Conceptually, the technology promises needle/blood-free, quantitative and continuous monitoring, enabled by its unique architecture and the exploitation of preferential pathways of biological analytes through the skin.

Dr Adelina Ilie is Reader in the Department of Physics at the University of Bath. She is a specialist in nanoscience and nanotechnology, and is also co-founder and former Chief Scientific Officer of the Bath and Bristol-based spin-out company Transdermal Diagnostics.

Images courtesy of Vittoria D’Alessio, University of Bath Media Centre and Dr Michael Froggatt