Epicore Biosystems

It's not every day you're in The Wall Street Journal! Huge milestone for Epicore Biosystems team and our partners at Chevron. Hear it directly from those we're aiming to protect: “Without this device, nothing would have told me I need to replenish myself,” says the 34-year-old. “I went to this training several times, and by Friday, you’re very tired, fatigued, more than likely from being dehydrated. During this week, by Friday, I felt good because I was staying ahead of it. I was more so being proactive on my hydration versus reactive trying to catch up.” He liked that the technology didn’t just spit out generic advice to drink water, instead giving him a sense of how much hydration he needed and whether he needed electrolytes in addition to water. “That was pretty neat to be able to see that"... This partnership highlights the growing importance of breakthrough wearable tech in safeguarding workers' hydration, health and maintaining productivity in extreme conditions. Read the full story in The Wall Street Journal (by Ray Smith) and learn more about how we’re making a difference alongside other innovators in the space. PepsiCo Gatorade Denka Company Limited Northwestern University Northwestern's Querrey InQbation Lab John Rogers #RogersLab Kathryn Underhill Louisa Reid Michelle Stewart, MPH, CIH Michael Wasik Wendy Chopra Jesse Guerra Richard Williams Stuart Coleman #innovation #technology #chevron #wsj #wallstreetjournal #climate #workersafety #osha #niosh #cdc #occupationalhealth #industrialhygiene #hydration #oilandgas #construction #safety #healthtech #digitalhealth #technology #startups #futureAI

So what's going on this Fall, that mixes Sensor Innovation, AI, and Social Responsibility...with a dash of fun (Best Paper Award Ceremony at Pinstripes, includes bowling, food, and awards). We're excited to be hosting this years IEEE IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society Body Sensor Network conference (co-chairing with John Rogers and Laura B.) in the heart of Chicago Oct 15-17! At the Double Tree Hilton Chicago!! Make sure to get your ??????????-???????? ???????????????????????? (???? ???????? ????): https://lnkd.in/g-UGYB8K and Book your ?????????? (?????????????? ?????? ?????? ?? ???????????????? ???? ???????? ????): https://lnkd.in/ggkiwk8C Keynotes: -Professor Shana Kelley from Northwestern University who directs Meta's Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network talking about the latest in sensor innovation!! -Professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum from Rice University talking about Global Health and Technology and touching on Social Responsibility! -A special combined Industry Keynote and Panel with Google's Jake Sunshine and Epicore Biosystems's Roozbeh Ghaffari discussing the latest in AI and Sensing. Much more to come (workshops, special panels and more)... Omer Inan Sunghoon Ivan Lee Roozbeh Jafari Canan Dagdeviren Paolo Bonato Josiah Hester Nivedita Arora Brandon Oubre Stephen Xia Wenyao Xu Bjoern Eskofier Wei Chen Bobak Mortazavi Nanshu Lu VP Nguyen Karan Ahuja Ye (Sarah) Sun Mahdi Pedram Bashima Islam Siyi Xu Matthew Flavin Lama Nachman Alex Adams Maia Jacobs Kunal Mankodiya Chris Romano Glenn F.

Just finished the last ‘instructor-defined’ module in our Bioelectronics Lab course for the quarter – the next and final exercise is a ‘do it yourself’ module, where the students define their own experiments using any combination of the technologies introduced to them up to this point in the course.?The focus this week was on soft, skin-mounted microfluidic devices – sometimes known as ‘lab on the skin’ devices – for analysis of sweat loss, sweat rate, electrolyte levels and electrolyte loss.?Quantitative readout involves digital imaging to track the filling front of sweat as it enters a spiral microfluidic channel and to define the color of a chemical reagent as it reacts with chloride in the sweat in circular reservoirs.?Big thanks to Dr. Da Som Yang and to Youngdo Kim for serving as TAs for this lab! Amusing side-note: our first publication on this technology appeared in Science Translational Medicine in 2016; in 2017 we signed a deal with the president of Gatorade to produce a product based on this technology, through a tiny startup (Epicore Biosystems) that we launched specifically for that purpose; in 2021 the first product was released to consumers as the Gx sweat patch, manufactured at a scale of millions of units in a reel-to-reel process, available through the Gatorade Performance Partner website and at DICK'S Sporting Goods and other stores.?Last month, after a two-year pilot program and extensive process of regulatory approvals, Epicore formally announced advanced wireless devices for monitoring hydration status in the context of worker safety, with large company customers in the oil and gas industry, including Chevron and several others.?These two product platforms are the first examples of commercialized sweat-sensing devices and they are still the only ones launched at scale. Original paper can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gth_29C7 Epicore Biosystems Website: https://lnkd.in/griM5rBE