The mission of KERMIT is to establish a scalable platform for sweat-based sensorics to serve as a base for unobtrusive point-of-care (POC) diagnostics. We aim to integrate multiple analyte sensors, a sweat collection system, and a low-power analysis and wireless data transmission chip into a simple-to-use disposable on-skin patch that can be easily dispatched by doctors and applied by patients to screen at-risk populations and monitor chronic diseases, like chronic kidney disease (CKD), remotely.
Going beyond traditional wearables, KERMIT will perform parallel unobtrussive measurement of multiple kidney disease in the form of acute kidney injure (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) biomarkes from sweat to understand early warning signs and correlate disease progression.

The majority of more than 100 million people that live with CKD in Europe are unaware of their condition, resulting in high morbidity, mortality, and billions spent for the reactive management and treatment of patients. KERMIT’s aim to develop a cheap non-invasive POC test device provides the opportunity to screen high risk group populations (i.e. elderly people, patients with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, or hypertension), and monitor patients with acute kidney injuries (AKI) during and after hospitalization. This will support individualized preventive measures, lessen economic pressure on healthcare systems, and drive hospital and governmental resources where they are most needed.

The development of KERMIT will be a base for diagnosis of different diseases from sweat. In the future, sweat patches like KERMIT will be readily available at the pharmacy or through an online subscription. It can be part of regular check ups that can be done from home. Likewise, it can be part of a standard care routine for patients with CKD.

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