International Patent Awarded to a Pharmacy Research Team for Inventing a Saliva-Based Diabetes Testing Device
A highly specialized research team from the esteemed College of Pharmacy at the University of Basrah achieved an outstanding scientific milestone by officially obtaining a rigorous patent from the Republic of India for successfully developing and manufacturing an innovative portable device that precisely tests human diabetes levels via saliva.
The distinguished research team intrinsically responsible for this major achievement consistently consists of an elite group of the college's professors: Professor Dr. (Falah Hassan Shari), Assistant Professor Dr. (Gibran Khalil Hassan), Assistant Professor Dr. (Oday Sajjad), and Assistant Professor Dr. (Ghassan Salah Ahmed). The intricate details of the officially granted patent included the academic team's ultimate success in strategically designing and manufacturing a specialized diagnostic smart device to assess bodily sugar levels through saliva analytics, definitively eliminating the need for the traditional, uncomfortable, and painful finger-pricking process for patients globally.
What fundamentally distinguishes this modern medical innovation is its complete operational independence from conventionally used consumable test strips, in addition to categorically not requiring distinct ambient storage temperatures. Furthermore, laboratory experiments definitively proved that the margin of internal error in this highly innovative device is significantly low when compared to traditional blood-dependent testing devices. The latter notoriously demand precise operational criteria to legally ensure result accuracy (such as exact red blood cell quantity, strict storage quality for test strips, and constant protection from contamination). Consequently, this scientific triumph renders the newly patented device a qualitative evolutionary leap in significantly facilitating accessible and rapid healthcare for diabetic patients.







