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Context
• 400+ million people with diabetes
• Big demand in poorer communities
• Expensive
• No generic insulin
Context
• Complications
Blindness
Amputations
• Patent strategies keep prices up
Develop the first open source
protocol to produce insulin simply
and economically
Implications
• Cheaper insulin through generic
manufacturers
• Improvements to medication
• Home brewing insulin
Implications
• Microfactories in developing communities
• Communication on diabetes/pharma issues
• Open science proof of concept
Progress
• Two genetic constructs
• Good growth in bacteria (E. coli)
• Expression of proinsulin,
fluorescent marker
To do
• Turn into human insulin (digest)
• Purify and validate with HPLC
• Followup?
– Legal
– Safety
– Scaling up
Lessons
• Communication
• Recruitment
• Uncharted terrain: international collaboration
International
• Sydney
• Started in early 2017
Belgian Chapter
• Repeat experiments?
• Find new approach?
• Help in other ways
Supporters
Lab infrastructure
Supporters
Communication
Supporters
Digital platform
Today
• We start
• Make plans
– Research
– Recruiting/funding
Questions/Discussion

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