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Here today okay about running "'cause"
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a pretty small your it less than a
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hundred people here in Switzerland
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privately owned company I would call it
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the check in all traits for medical
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devices. So we do mainly
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microelectronics micro mechanics. And
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we are traditionally doing service and
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development and manufacturing of
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medical devices for example implants
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sensors in contact lenses and cochlear
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implants and sophisticated stuff like
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that. Now we have a new group that is
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located here at EPFL but you know E and
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that is the startup in about running.
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Um our group is actually the innovation
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group. And its own directly by about
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running holding the just a mother this
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sister companies in the US and in
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Morocco and the goal of our group is
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building a longterm proprietary
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portfolio of innovative medical device
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technologies by either inventing
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ourselves or by in licensing smart
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ideas from for example EPFL or other
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universities. So all of the fields we
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are interested in is mainly medical
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there are we are doing a lot of
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different things traditionally from
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surgical robots over sensor in plans to
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drug delivery devices. And we are also
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interested and experience in
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pharmaceutical devices drug delivery
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devices diagnostic devices and we also
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have some experience in aerospace
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industry talking sensors and platforms.
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So quite wide field I want to give you
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two examples of what my group your
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refugee at EPFL is currently working on
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the a pretty new near Peoria since
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December last year building a small
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laboratory now doing feasibility were
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doing early experiments on innovative
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things. This here is to proceed either
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that's used in black Banks because that
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before you take the need a lot of the
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tone or giving blood you have to seal
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that you in order to automatically
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avoid any contamination of the plot
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back. And doing that is radio frequency
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rather because you don't wanna open
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that so you squeeze to you will put
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such a clamp. And this radio frequency
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the plastic is well that I know there's
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well there's are a nightmare because
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they have a three kilograms shoulders
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correct battery pack of one hundred
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fifty part radio frequency generator.
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So what we did is we designed a smart
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way to make that thing more energy to
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fish efficient by tuning the impedance.
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And be redeveloped now a prototype that
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you can see when you come visit us
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which wasted three hundred grams has a
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lithium battery inside and can valid
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more than seven hundred welts on one
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charge simply by implementing modern
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technologies and tuning the impedance.
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So that's a smart and interesting
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product for black bands next example is
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diabetics have to use insulin most of
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the time and they use typically this
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disposable injection pens that you see
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in the lower right corner unfortunately
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this depends do not record anything but
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the patients are doing and the patients
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have a lot of trouble me remembering
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what they have to do what they did in
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the past they have to inject maybe five
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times a day adjusted those according to
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how much they eat. And so on. So what
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we are building right now. Um and we
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have the first demonstrate already is a
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smart cat. So we replace the protective
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cap on that and with the cat that does
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the electronic measurement of the
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content of the pen down to zero point
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two fan too far out electrical capacity
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of course a so the measurement of the
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cap is more precise in the delivery of
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the pen now the cat that's blue tooth
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and couldn't talk to other devices and
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make a complete track record of how
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much you injected when it can also
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recognise when the pen has a problem
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like not delivering what it's supposed
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to deliver because of the air bubble
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inside the insulin ample. So this is
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one of the most exciting projects you
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see a correlation curve on the upper
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right where we go over the micro
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without analytical balance waiting the
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insulin in the pen verses or electronic
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measurement and it looks pretty good
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this is to typical examples of projects
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of course we need all sorts of
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expertise whenever you are interested
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in this kind of stuff contact me but