Biosensors publishes the first paper of the Unicatt research project supported by Chirale

For about two years our laboratory Spazio Chirale has been supporting the research work of the Department of Metabolic Intelligence of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, on an ambitious project whose ultimate goal is to build a digital platform able to define a patient’s Metabolic Avatar, which nutrition specialists can use to tailor diet regimes and therapeutic treatments.

The project is financially supported by Blu Sistemi and the Regione Lazio, through the funds for Industrial PhDs.

At Spazio Chirale we ran the training activities for PhD candidates and researchers on rapid electronic prototyping, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing applied to Machine Learning.

Our facility also provided methodological support for the design of the wearable devices used for data collection.

A first part of the work focused on studying the effects of mastication on metabolism, identifying the patterns that are characteristic of each person in relation to specific habits — for example, whether the person is a smoker or not.

During the last edition of the Maker Faire Rome, at the Università Cattolica stand a massive data-collection campaign was carried out, inviting visitors to undergo mastication tests after putting on the wearable sensor purpose-designed and built to record the biophysical parameters relevant to the research.

The amount of data collected was significant and the outcome of this first phase of the research was summarised in a paper submitted to the leading scientific and academic journals in the field.

To our great satisfaction, the paper passed the rigorous peer review stage of the prestigious PubMed-indexed journal Biosensors, and on 20 July it was published in Volume 13, Issue 7.

Among the co-authors of the paper is our President Rosita Esposito.

The article is publicly accessible at the link: https://doi.org/10.3390/bios13070749

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