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(Months)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our project, the CGM-X, addresses the pressing need for improved glucose monitoring among individuals managing diabetes. Existing solutions such as daily finger pricks or short-term, expensive glucose monitors pose significant challenges. The CGM-X offers a lifespan of over two years, eliminating the need for frequent replacements and reducing financial strain. It allows users to own their own data and opens the door for decentralised applications to be built on top of the hardware.\n\nOur roadmap includes finalising the design, conducting testing and validating the data it generates.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are the first open-source hardware project in DeSci thus moving the entire space forward. DeSci is about correcting misaligned incentives and hardware is often overlooked in these discussions (eg simple inexpensive hardware being sold for a huge profit). Open source hardware is also important when conducting open decentralised research as users own their own data. Specifically for the CGM-X, there is a lack of long-term continuous blood sugar data given the difficulty in measuring it. Further development on top of CGM-X would be decentralised AI apps helping to guide the user's actions based on their sugar level as well as pairing it with an open-source insulin pump to deliver treatment automatically when needed. \n", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Sensor sourcing, data analysis, and app development.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "N.A.", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15/ Beta) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "N.A. - None", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past DeSci grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? (or anything not covered elsewhere in this application that you feel is relevant to share)", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "No", "hidden": false, "question": "Does 50% of your team reflect the diversity of the community your project serves with a particular emphasis on including women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC), individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community?", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Please read the following exclusion criteria that are not permitted and will result in rejection or removal from the round.", "questionId": 14}], "project": {"id": "0x733ca20bc8c2dc664cfb0e770fabb65407b781a81d53dda40a42b7db000b73cc", "title": "The CGM-x by Symbiont Labs", "logoImg": "bafkreiezd4k6jor3hmbujkl4c2ksukpebzuncyd633ebd572woeiaernq4", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigv3yvw3jojofl4pa432y7kt5id5mg4r2sgg5dqt44wfzx3bmpvju", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://forms.gle/EhFRUrqtUWZuAiSg7", "bannerImg": "bafkreiag3ny6fyiacxb7lsxd24zdanj4tmpr25s7c6iqgmxjea32oztvji", "createdAt": 1714166676026, "credentials": {}, "description": "The first open-source DeSci hardware project - an implantable continuous glucose monitor.\n\nSymbiont Labs is building an implantable continuous glucose monitor. It's placed beneath the skin, typically in the arm, and boasts a lifespan of over two years!  This would be invaluable for patients with diabetes who need to measure their blood sugar daily. \n\nCurrent alternatives involve either daily finger pricks or costly short-term glucose monitors, which need replacement every two weeks for $80 each time.  **Our project would be a significant improvement over the current solutions**.\n\nDiabetes is one of the biggest costs to the health care services, costing over 400 billion a year in the US alone. Introducing an affordable, long-lasting monitor that provides hassle-free readings empowers users to better manage their condition, **directly translating to saved lives and reduced strain on healthcare resources**.  This is why we are building the CGM-X. \n \nThis is the first (of hopefully man) open-source hardware project in DeSci. The monitor can also be used for conducting research studies (ie can your blood sugar level variability be useful for predicting biological age) and allows this research to be conducted in an open, inclusive, and accessible manner. We also envision a lot of non-diabetes users for this device given the recent trends of wearable technology.\n\nIt is an **open-source NFC-driven optical glucometer**. It's a circuit and sensor array enclosed within a biocompatible glass cylinder, similar to the Eversense E3 CGM which recently received FDA approval.\n\nWhile we've finalized the design and produced an early prototype, further refinement is needed. We're excited to have garnered interest from volunteers eager to test our device in its early stages!\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "bh1991"}, "recipient": "0x9141dFE96Aa7175Cfa84aE9b357f5515d4E02320"}}