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Dr. Cakmak Wins NorTech Innovation Award

For his work on artificial pancreas technology, Dr. Mukerrem Cakmak and Dr. Joe Kennedy from Polymer Science received the 2009 NorTech Innovation Award in the biosciences category. Cakmak and Kennedy collaborated to make a biocompatible, polymer-coated nanofiber tube populated with insulin-producing cells from a pig. The invention of their implantable device has the potential to become the first long-term cure for diabetes.

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