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Wearable Novel Metabolite Monitor

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W81XWH-04-C-0110
Agency Tracking Number: O041-DH2-3023
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: OSD04-DH2
Solicitation Number: 2004.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2004
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2004-06-07
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2004-12-07
Small Business Information
7607 Eastmark Drive, Suite 102
College Station, TX 77840
United States
DUNS: 184758308
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Anjal Sharma
 Research Scientist
 (979) 693-0017
 anjal.sharma@lynntech.com
Business Contact
 G. Hitchens
Title: Vice President
Phone: (979) 693-0017
Email: duncan.hitchens@lynntech.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Monitoring of a soldier's health status during deployment will allow for proper countermeasure protocols to be instituted if the soldier becomes fatigued, ill, etc. A variety of metabolic molecules have been identified (e.g., glucose) as markers that can be monitored in soldiers. A monitoring device for these markers would need to be wearable, lightweight, easy-to-use, non-invasive, and non-constricting to a soldier's movement. A few minimally invasive techniques exist today to monitor a single metabolite at a time, particularly glucose; there are none capable of monitoring multiple metabolic markers. Therefore there is a great need for developing a wearable, non-invasive metabolic marker sensor that can monitor multiple analytes at a time. Lynntech proposes to develop a wearable sensor system capable of monitoring multiple metabolic markers at a time from non-invasively extracted interstitial fluid using polymeric optrodes specific to the metabolite of interest. In Phase I, Lynntech will prove the feasibility of the sensor for detection of multiple metabolites, particularly glucose and lactate. In Phase II, Lynntech will build a prototype sensor that fully integrates Lynntech's enhanced extraction technique for interstitial fluid and Lynntech's novel sensor elements into a lightweight, wearable device.

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