Tag: Joe Wang

  • Joe Wang developed, closed-loop, levadopa delivery/monitoring system for Parkinson’s disease

    Joe Wang developed, closed-loop, levadopa delivery/monitoring system for Parkinson’s disease

    Early Parkinson’s Disease patients benefit significantly from levodopa, to replace dopamine to restore normal motor function. As PD progresses, the brain loses more dopamine-producing cells, which causes motor complications and unpredictable responses to levodopa. Doses must be increased over time, and given at shorter intervals. Regimens are different for each person and may vary from…

  • Microneedle wearable continuously monitors glucose, lactate, alcohol

    Microneedle wearable continuously monitors glucose, lactate, alcohol

    UCSD Professor Joe Wang and colleagues have created a multiple biomarker monitor in the form of a painless microneedle patch, which Wang calls a “complete lab on the skin.” Glucose, lactate and alcohol levels are monitored simultaneously, in real time. Microneedles enable the direct sample of interstitial fluid, which provides a similar measure of biochemical…

  • Wang’s fingertip sweat sensor detects glucose levels

    Wang’s fingertip sweat sensor detects glucose levels

    UCSD’s Joe Wang has developed a totally noninvasive sensor and algorithm to detect glucose levels from sweat on the fingertip. The painless, rapid, and accurate system could revolutionize diabetes management. The systemcombines a simple touch-based fingertip sweat electrochemical sensor with a new algorithm that addresses for personal variations toward the accurate estimate of blood glucose…

  • First nutrition monitoring wearable tracks vitamin C; could be useful in COVID treatment

    First nutrition monitoring wearable tracks vitamin C; could be useful in COVID treatment

    UCSD’s Joe Wang has again disrupted chemical sensing, by creating a wearable vitamin C sensor, which is a departure from now common vital sign and activity sensing wearables. This is the first time a wearable has been used to track nutritional intake, a key component of general health and disease prevention. Vitamin C cannot be…