June 9, 2025 Interactive Artificial Pancreas Better Controls Type 1 Diabetes Using Digital Twins, Study Finds

New technology that allows a University of Virginia-developed artificial pancreas system to adapt to users’ changing bodies – and lets users test changes to how the system operates – improved control of their type 1 diabetes, a study has found.

January 7, 2025 UVA Center for Diabetes Technology, Tandem Diabetes Care to Research Fully Automated Insulin Delivery

University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology and Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., have signed a multi-year collaboration agreement to advance research…

May 2, 2024 Adding AI to Artificial Pancreas Enhances Efficiency, Study Finds

The increased efficiency could allow the system to be used in devices with low computational power, such as an insulin pump.

March 16, 2023 Artificial Pancreas Developed at UVA Improves Blood Sugar Control for Kids Ages 2-6, Study Finds

Details of the clinical study and its findings were just published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. 

August 27, 2020 UVA-Developed Artificial Pancreas Effective for Children Ages 6-13, Study Finds

An artificial pancreas originally developed at the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology safely and effectively manages blood sugar levels in children ages 6 to 13 with type 1 diabetes, a national clinical trial has found.

March 3, 2020 Artificial Pancreas Up for Best Biomedical Advance in STAT Madness Bracket Challenge

A UVA Health-developed artificial pancreas system is among the nominees for 2019’s best biomedical research and is fighting to win…

January 2, 2020 FDA Approves UVA-Developed Artificial Pancreas

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an artificial pancreas system – based on technology from the University of…

October 16, 2019 Artificial pancreas system better controls blood glucose levels than current technology

A multicenter randomized clinical trial evaluating a new artificial pancreas system — which automatically monitors and regulates blood glucose levels — has found that the new system was more effective than existing treatments at controlling blood glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes.

June 6, 2017 UVA Expanding Its Worldwide Diabetes Research and Care Model

Building on its pioneering work to better control type 1 diabetes, the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology is…

April 28, 2017 Artificial Pancreas Benefits Young Children, Trial Shows

A pilot study among young children with Type 1 diabetes found that a University of Virginia-developed artificial pancreas helped study…