• Menu
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Before Header

Live Sketchnoting for Virtual Conferences, Meetings, and Webinars. -Click to Read     330.835.7383

Big Paper Strategy

Brainstorming and Graphic Recording, Visual Practitioner

Header Right

  • Virtual Events
  • Graphic Recording
  • Workshops
  • About Matt
  • More
    • Blog
    • IoT Canvas
    • Emerging Technologies Presented through a Drawing Workshop
    • Sharing the Vision
  • Get a Quote

Mobile Menu

  • Virtual Events
  • Graphic Recording
  • Workshops
  • About Matt
  • More
    • Blog
    • IoT Canvas
    • Emerging Technologies Presented through a Drawing Workshop
    • Sharing the Vision
  • Get a Quote

A Brainstorming Session to Cure Type 1 Diabetes

July 24, 2018 //  by Matt Orley

For anyone that has struggled through a laborious sequence of prescribed medical tests, or has been offered a ‘tried and true’ treatment with 60% success rate, the science of medicine can feel like a system, and just an imperfect science.

But lest we forget that medicine… is an art!  Innovation through creative thought must be harnessed by the medical research community to supplement the new role of Big Data, AI and pharmaceutical dollars in order to uncover technological leaps, medicinal breakthroughs, and game changing / life saving devices.

Taking T1D to the Creative Wood Shed

Type 1 Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of people around the world.  The requirement of dosing insulin every hour combined with continuous blood sugar testing has led to some innovative solutions like Continuous Glucose Monitors, Insulin Pumps, Slow and Rapid Release Insulin with other innovations on the horizon that could lead to a practical cure.

T1D affects my family.  When I had the opportunity to participate on a fun T1D Community Event I jumped at it.  The simple premise was to gather and brainstorm new innovative solutions that could cure those with T1D, or make their lives easier.  The only rule was to stay away from existing tracks of known medical research- to force participants to think creatively.

The resulting brainstorming session came up with a number of new concepts and technologies that, likely would be laughed at by the medical community.  But you know?  So what- all it takes is ONE idea to spark the “What If” moment in a medical researcher to completely change the landscape.

Below are the far off ideas concocted in the meeting.

  • Build a wall around the Pancreas
  • Edible Insulin-making safe e-coli packets
  • Hide the Pancreas from the Immune System
  • Use your own insulin grown in a lab
  • Share insulin from a tape worm or other symbiote
  • Acid protective shielding for insulin Pills to get through Stomach
  • Grow a new Pancreas
  • Smart insulin that absorbs through stomach or esophogal cell wall
  • Time Release Insulin Machine in Stomach/intestine
  • Vaporized Insulin into lungs – not nose
  • Gut Bacteria Protects/Creates Insulin
  • Reshaped Beta Cells/Islets
  • Reshaped T-Cells – existing
  • Keep TCells busy with Fake Islets
  • Stretch beta cells to be a different shape
  • Mutate beta cells to be a different shape
  • Make it so T cells can’t touch Eyelets… concave shape of eyelets
  • Fuse together beta cells or fuse together eyelets??
  • Give T-Cells a New Target instead of Beta Cells – “That will keep her busy”
  • Beta cell growth hormone like Lizard Tails- Rapid re-growth
  • Pre-digest some sugars in stomach, small intestine
  • Alternative to Insulin that breaks down sugar- in the body? outside?
  • Pill/Gum that lasts 24 hours /8 hours and does insulin creation
  • Other Organs as Insulin makers – What part of body isn’t protected by T-cells? Make it there- eye vessels??
  • Temporary T-cells destroyed for X months to let eyelets rebuild
  • Stop sugar from absorbing through intestines when sugar is high
  • Insulin receptor with Spider veins into blood stream -like that fancy patch, but embedded in skin – blowout/cleanable with saline??
  • Train Kidneys to filter out sugar from blood stream – more than usual/lower tolerance
  • Destroy sugar instead of metabolizing it in blood stream – the “Carmelizer”
  • Glowstick- Crack open  in Arm for sugar/insulin
Share
Tweet
Pin
Share
0 Shares

Our Graphic Recording Work on Instagram

My new friend, humorist Jim Pelley, shared this qu My new friend, humorist Jim Pelley, shared this quote during a keynote address he was giving earlier this week.  I was standing next to him drawing when he said it and I thought it needed a bit more recognition!
#DoubleDuty - I drew both #IRL live in person AND #DoubleDuty - I drew both #IRL live in person AND digitally for a virtual audience at a #GMID21 celebration in Columbus this week.  Thank you to @mpioh @pcmapower , and OSAE for bringing me in!  #GraphicRecording #digitalSketchnotes.  First time back out!
Bringing vectorized photo faces into Digital Graph Bringing vectorized photo faces into Digital Graphic Recording.. This has a different feel from hand drawn faces.. Excited to keep experimenting!!
I had to wake up at 3am to support this worldwide I had to wake up at 3am to support this worldwide live illustration event!  I brought ideas in the nature-based solutions space to life for event participants across Europe, Ghana, Vietnam, Tanzania, and even Kathmandu.
DIgital Sketchnotes jump to real life when printed DIgital Sketchnotes jump to real life when printed!  This event recap piece was printed as a 16x20 poster and a 8x11 reminder to all event attendees for a recent event.
Ideas #Ideas Ideas! Ideas #Ideas Ideas!
More and more clients are coming to me and asking More and more clients are coming to me and asking for stand alone illustrations to represent and sell complex topics.  I keep saying yes!!
It's always cool when you get to draw for a househ It's always cool when you get to draw for a household name- earlier this year I had the privilege of drawing for an association keynote featuring Sal Khan of Khan academy- he has a loved/hated relationship around my house :)
Load More... Follow on Instagram

Ask a question!

Transform your next virtual or live event- Invite Matt to listen, draw and capture on big paper or a virtual canvas. All art is shareable and a great connection point for your attendees. In a hurry? Call Matt @ 330 835 7383.
  • Desired dates, best time to reach you... and starter questions!
Next Post: Building a Kid Entrepreneur »

Primary Sidebar

Giant Sketchnotes- for Community Event, Cleveland Ohio

Graphic Recording

Business Drawing Workshops

Recent Posts

  • Adventures in Live Illustration
  • Live Sketching A Site Visitor Journey To Create A Sitemap With Your Client
  • Drawing Substantially Activates the Brain to Learn and Understand
  • 15 Ways to Use a Graphic Recorder at your Conference or Trade Show
  • Fiery Speakers and Introspective Group Discussions- Drawn Live
Big Paper Strategy LLC
330.835.7383
matt@bigpaperstrategy.com

Footer

Big Paper Strategy LLC
175 Kendall Park Road
Peninsula, OH 44264
330.835.7383
matt@bigpaperstrategy.com
Big Paper Strategy on Instragram
LinkedIn Profile- Connect with me!
International Forum of Visual Practitioners

Navigation

  • Live Digital Sketchnotes for Virtual Events
  • Contact Big Paper
  • Graphic Recording
  • Business Drawing Workshops
  • The Fiercest Competitor Workshop

Copyright © 2021 Big Paper Strategy LLC · Click to Call 330.835.7383