Dean Kamen
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open Dean Kamen: ARMI will be in clinical trials with half a dozen different ARMI-based organ/tissue products.
“We will be in clinical trials with a half a dozen different Army based products within the next”
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open Dean Kamen: A retinal implant device for macular degeneration, currently being tested in animals, will be in front of the FDA.
“I'm believing that within certainly a couple of years that will be in front of the FDA and your worries about macular degeneration may be substantially reduced.”
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open Dean Kamen: DEKA/ARMI will put manufactured pediatric-sized hearts into animal trials.
“we will be putting some of these quote manufactured hearts in animals this year.”
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open Dean Kamen: ARMI/DEKA-produced islet cells (billions per day from bioreactors) will begin being shipped to researchers around the country.
“we're starting to within the next few months we'll be shipping some of them around the country.”
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open Dean Kamen: Kamen told the White House that ARMI would get an organ-manufacturing product in front of the FDA within five years of ARMI's founding (~2018), and that the U.S. would need a complete new regulatory strategy for organ manufacturing before then.
“Even if we're lucky enough that within the 5 years I told you we'll get something in front of the FDA... Unless we start now, we'll be 5 years ahead of the FDA when we have the capacity to do this.”
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open Dean Kamen: By the next pandemic, vaccine delivery in the U.S. will use needle-free intradermal devices like Daisy instead of syringes and needles, eliminating associated side effects.
“I'm hoping by the next time a pandemic hits this country, you won't have to see syringes and needles and large volumes and get fevers and muscle all the side effects go away.”
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open Dean Kamen: FIRST Global will announce the host city, host country, and theme for its next annual event at a public unveiling at Meridian House in Washington, D.C.
“on April 11th of this year, which is coming up, we're announcing where it will be next year... We're announcing what the theme will be.”
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open Dean Kamen: The next FIRST Global international robotics event will take place over three days in the announced host city/country.
“sketching right now, it will happen between September 26th and September 29th at the end of this year.”
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