Echo Therapeutics Initiates Clinical Study Of Its Transdermal Continuous Glucose Monitoring System
Franklin, MA - Echo Therapeutics, Inc. announced recently that it has initiated a clinical study of its Symphony Transdermal Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (tCGM System) in patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The Company expects to complete and announce the results of the study in the third quarter of 2008. Echo's non-invasive Symphony tCGM System consists of its Prelude SkinPrep System, which incorporates patented and leading-edge skin permeation control technology, and wireless transmission and proprietary transdermal biosensor technologies. Echo's Symphony tCGM System is designed to provide both diabetes and hospital patients with a reliable, needle-free, easy-to-use, affordable and comfortable-to-wear continuous glucose monitoring device.
"Building on the momentum generated from our prior four positive pilot clinical studies, we are excited to have started our next pilot study in the important diabetes home use market. Our new Prelude Skin Prep System is a competitively unique component of our Symphony tCGM System, enabling our system to generate painless, needle-free, continuous glucose measurements. The primary purpose of this new study is to evaluate the performance of our Symphony tCGM System with Prelude as the new skin permeation element," stated Patrick T. Mooney, M.D., Echo's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We are very excited about our significant development progress thus far, and we look forward to making additional progress with Symphony throughout 2008."
Echo's pilot clinical study will enroll ten (10) patients with diabetes (either Type 1 or Type 2) and will compare data obtained from its Symphony tCGM System with both the "gold standard" YSI Glucose Analyzer and a widely-used, commercially available "finger-stick" glucometer. The study will collect more than 900 data pairs to be used in the analyses. Reference glucose measurements will be made at 15 minute intervals for 24 hours with the study data blinded to study subjects and study personnel.
SOURCE: Echo Therapeutics, Inc.