NSF and ERC jetting collaboration
During the month of January, 2022, we had the privilege to have in our lab Prof. Andrew Dickerson from Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee. His visit was made possible due to the agreement between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the European Research Council (ERC). Andrew’s project ‘Tuning liquid jet and splash dynamics by deformable […]
Winner of the UT Media Prize 2021
David won the University of Twente UT in The Media Award 2021! The Board of Directors of the UT stimulates efforts aimed at disseminating the results of academic research and that they more frequently come to the attention of the broader audience. In this case, David and his team of collaborators have appeared several times […]
The BuBble group starting 2022
It is hard to make pictures of the group, with or without masks, in these pandemic times. There were actually two team members who could not join for the big moment. We will try it again! However, we were happy to meet with the broader BuBbles Team at the University of Twente.
Claudia joins our team as a PhD student!
A new PhD student, Claudia Muñoz Villaescusa has joined our team, and will explore different scenarios of small liquid volumes penetration in complex substrates, such as skin. She got her MSc and BSc at the InSTEC, Havana Cuba.
Green sustainable aspects of our technology: Het Groene Oosten, Dutch TV
Lea Milovich, co-founder of our spin-off FlowBeams explains (in Dutch) several elements of our plans. In particular, reducing the amount of waste generated with traditional injections would have tremendous impact. The journalist André van der Zee seized our ideas with a great sense of humour! Healthcare workers suffer needle-stick incidents with grave consequences for their […]
Stairway to Impact Award 2021 prize from Dutch Research Council
This year is full of amazing news for the BuBble Gun team, and The Stairway to Impact Awards 2021 is a very good example. It will be used to organise the second edition of The Future Under Our Skin. is an international stakeholder network with funding from the National Research Agenda. FUOS has evolved into […]
World Economic Forum features BuBble Gun
The World Economic Forum featured our work! David shows the reporters of Reuters how the needle-free injection experiment works link to video. Our mock prototype can be seen in one embodiment here.
Talking at the World Health Summit
I spoke at the World Health Summit about small volume injections without needles: less pain and less waste. The whole ‘New Voices in Global Health’ session can be seen in this video-link.
Reuters: ‘Virtually painless’ needle-free injections developed in Netherlands
Reuters presents our work: `Virtually painless’ needle-free injections developed in Netherlands! See also how the World Economic Forum also covered our work in this link to video. “Roughly one in five Dutch people are afraid of needles, said Henk Schenk, who offers therapy to help those suffering acutely. “Phobia of needles is more common than you […]
Lecture for the younger audiences
I am so excited to talk to a promising audience! During the Weekend of Science, it will be the first time I get the opportunity to talk directly to kids from 8 years and above… More than telling much, I want to know what they think about our idea to inject without needles, and how […]