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<p style="padding:40px;color:#3e3f3f;font-size:16px;font-family:'Quicksand';text-align:center">We spent a considerable amount of time looking out into the real world to figure out how our project | <p style="padding:40px;color:#3e3f3f;font-size:16px;font-family:'Quicksand';text-align:center">We spent a considerable amount of time looking out into the real world to figure out how our project | ||
would best solve the issues of insulin unaffordability and inaccessibility. Key advisors and | would best solve the issues of insulin unaffordability and inaccessibility. Key advisors and | ||
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Under each of the below headings, you fill find the conversations we had with these stakeholders which integrated into our final product. Please enjoy reading through our journey! | Under each of the below headings, you fill find the conversations we had with these stakeholders which integrated into our final product. Please enjoy reading through our journey! | ||
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+ | <span class="name">Anthony</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">Our foreign friend over in the USA began the Open Insulin project after realising the sheer cost of insulin, the hormone he needs to survive as a type I diabetic. Anthony and his counterparts in Counter Culture Labs initiated this project in the hopes to one day flood the market with affordable, accessible insulin. </span> | ||
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+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#e8939c"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Meow-Ludo Meow-Meow</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">Meow was known by most of us prior to joining the iGEM team, simply because of his unique inventions and biohacking revelations, which generally end up in the news. For this reason, we were all a little star-struck when we were able to work on the same project! | ||
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+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#f9ebb2"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Nick</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">Our overpowered iGEM primary investigator, who also had some crucial advice along the way. </span> | ||
+ | </li> | ||
+ | <li class="person" data-chat="person1"> | ||
+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#dbe5c3"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Neil</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">Technically an insurance assessor, but compassionately a humanitarian, Neil took us through how he works with Insulin for Life to collect and distribute unopened, unexpired insulin vials all around the world. </span> | ||
+ | </li> | ||
+ | <li class="person" data-chat="person1"> | ||
+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#908dce"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Jeni</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">A local pharmacist walked us through her perspective as someone dispensing insulin to diabetics, while giving us a little insight into the supply chain. </span> | ||
+ | </li> | ||
+ | <li class="person" data-chat="person1"> | ||
+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#94bdc1"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Len</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">A partner of Maxwells Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Len specialises in Intellectual Property disputes. Len spent some time with us to discuss the cross overs between Biotechnology and IP Law, and how it may impact our project design.</span> | ||
+ | </li> | ||
+ | <li class="person" data-chat="person1"> | ||
+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#bc86a7"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Edwina</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">A type I diabetic herself, Edwina spent a considerable amount of time talking with us about her views on insulins and its injection into the human body.</span> | ||
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− | <div class="bubble you" id=" | + | <div class="bubble you" id="jeni"> Also, just be careful with how much you adapt the insulin you design. Endocrinologists are hesitant to put their patients on biosimilars because they can never be taken off that specific biosimilar. Generally, if a person is taken off one insulin biosimilar and put on a different analogue, they will suffer from an allergic reaction to the new insulin! |
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+ | <span class="name">Dr David Beran</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">The team were honoured with the opportunity to talk to a world-renowned expert in the Insulin market on his opinions on how the market currently operates. Specifically, Dr Beran aided our understanding as to how we should approach the market to best help those not able to access insulin. </span> | ||
+ | </li> | ||
+ | <li class="person" data-chat="person1"> | ||
+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#94bdc1"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Len</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">A partner of Maxwells Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Len specialises in Intellectual Property disputes. Len spent some time with us to discuss the cross overs between Biotechnology and IP Law, and how it may impact our project design.</span> | ||
+ | </li> | ||
+ | <li class="person" data-chat="person1"> | ||
+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#b5e2af"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">George</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">An Open Insulin guru, George spent every second Monday at 5pm talking with us about where their project was up to. Working with human insulin specifically, George was an invaluable resource when trying to decipher our <a src="https://2017.igem.org/Team:Sydney_Australia/Rate_My_Gel">gels</a>! </span> | ||
+ | </li> | ||
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+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#bc86a7"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Edwina</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">A type I diabetic herself, Edwina spent a considerable amount of time talking with us about her views on insulins and its injection into the human body.</span> | ||
+ | </li> | ||
+ | <li class="person" data-chat="person1"> | ||
+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#f9ebb2"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Nick</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">Our overpowered iGEM primary investigator, who also had some crucial advice along the way. </span> | ||
+ | </li> | ||
+ | |||
+ | </ul> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
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− | In my opinion, coaxing generic manufacturers to produce your insulin will be a hard feat considering the impassable barriers to entry, including a Good Manufacturing Practice certification for insulin production. | + | In my opinion, coaxing generic manufacturers to produce your insulin will be a hard feat considering the impassable <a src="https://2017.igem.org/Team:Sydney_Australia/Applied_Design">barriers to entry</a>, including a Good Manufacturing Practice certification for insulin production. |
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+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#ddbcd3"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Mike</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">A local entrepreneur mentor at the Incubate Hub at Sydney University, and an all-round start-up guy, Mike Nicholls took the time to discuss the long-term goals of our project with us, specifically giving business and marketing advice. </span> | ||
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+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#dcfaff"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Narcyz</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">A specialist in access to high cost medicines (specifically cancer therapeutics), Dr Narcyz took the time to talk us through the associated costs with high cost medicines. </span> | ||
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+ | <li class="person" data-chat="person1"> | ||
+ | <div class="icon" style="background-color:#dbe5c3"></div> | ||
+ | <span class="name">Neil</span> | ||
+ | <span class="preview">Technically an insurance assessor, but compassionately a humanitarian, Neil took us through how he works with Insulin for Life to collect and distribute unopened, unexpired insulin vials all around the world. </span> | ||
+ | </li> | ||
+ | |||
+ | </ul> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
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Revision as of 02:34, 29 October 2017
About Our Integrated Human Practices
We spent a considerable amount of time looking out into the real world to figure out how our project would best solve the issues of insulin unaffordability and inaccessibility. Key advisors and stakeholders aided the decisions we made along the way. Not only did our project integrate with the advice of individual people, but these individuals became integrated into a big conversation between us all. Specifically, these conversations were around how we Apply the design, the Project Design itself and ultimately how we best present this project to the real world as a business.
Under each of the below headings, you fill find the conversations we had with these stakeholders which integrated into our final product. Please enjoy reading through our journey!
Project Design
- Anthony Our foreign friend over in the USA began the Open Insulin project after realising the sheer cost of insulin, the hormone he needs to survive as a type I diabetic. Anthony and his counterparts in Counter Culture Labs initiated this project in the hopes to one day flood the market with affordable, accessible insulin.
- Meow-Ludo Meow-Meow Meow was known by most of us prior to joining the iGEM team, simply because of his unique inventions and biohacking revelations, which generally end up in the news. For this reason, we were all a little star-struck when we were able to work on the same project!
- Nick Our overpowered iGEM primary investigator, who also had some crucial advice along the way.
- Neil Technically an insurance assessor, but compassionately a humanitarian, Neil took us through how he works with Insulin for Life to collect and distribute unopened, unexpired insulin vials all around the world.
- Jeni A local pharmacist walked us through her perspective as someone dispensing insulin to diabetics, while giving us a little insight into the supply chain.
- Len A partner of Maxwells Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Len specialises in Intellectual Property disputes. Len spent some time with us to discuss the cross overs between Biotechnology and IP Law, and how it may impact our project design.
- Edwina A type I diabetic herself, Edwina spent a considerable amount of time talking with us about her views on insulins and its injection into the human body.
Firstly, Human insulin purification takes a long time and, depending on the method used, can be very expensive. We investigated alternatives to this process, and we came up with a few expression systems that could be used to improve the folding of insulin inside Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis.
Secondly, insulin is currently stored at 4°C to preserve its activity. Keeping insulin at this temperature in cold storage chains while it’s being transported is incredibly difficult. This is especially so in lower economic countries, where we hope our insulin will be able to be sold.
So we thought, what if we designed our own, single chain, open source insulin that is also thermostable?
From our predictive modelling, we predict the Winsulin will be a short acting insulin, as advised. We also believe that our Winsulin will not fall into the ‘biosimilar’ category, as it is not simply an adaptation on a current market therapy, but an entirely new design altogether.
Applied Design
- Dr David Beran The team were honoured with the opportunity to talk to a world-renowned expert in the Insulin market on his opinions on how the market currently operates. Specifically, Dr Beran aided our understanding as to how we should approach the market to best help those not able to access insulin.
- Len A partner of Maxwells Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Len specialises in Intellectual Property disputes. Len spent some time with us to discuss the cross overs between Biotechnology and IP Law, and how it may impact our project design.
- George An Open Insulin guru, George spent every second Monday at 5pm talking with us about where their project was up to. Working with human insulin specifically, George was an invaluable resource when trying to decipher our gels!
- Edwina A type I diabetic herself, Edwina spent a considerable amount of time talking with us about her views on insulins and its injection into the human body.
- Nick Our overpowered iGEM primary investigator, who also had some crucial advice along the way.
Entrepreneurship
- Mike A local entrepreneur mentor at the Incubate Hub at Sydney University, and an all-round start-up guy, Mike Nicholls took the time to discuss the long-term goals of our project with us, specifically giving business and marketing advice.
- Narcyz A specialist in access to high cost medicines (specifically cancer therapeutics), Dr Narcyz took the time to talk us through the associated costs with high cost medicines.
- Neil Technically an insurance assessor, but compassionately a humanitarian, Neil took us through how he works with Insulin for Life to collect and distribute unopened, unexpired insulin vials all around the world.
Our international connections and global traction make us confident that our work will be continued in various laboratories across the world.
With this global force, we hope that the grass-roots approach will ultimately work to provide all corners of the globe the insulin they all need to survive.