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KIVI Students Twente & Studium Generale present:

Pricking without a needle

Many people suffer from prick-fear, the sight of a hypodermic needle makes them break out in a clammy sweat. The University of Twente is working on a solution: injecting without a needle.

KIVI & Studium Generale talk to Dr David Fernandez Rivas. At the UT, he is working on a new method to inject drugs using a super-fast fluid jet. In an ingenious injection device, a laser heats part of the liquid, creating a vapour bubble. The bubble shoots out the rest of the liquid at high speed (about 300 kilometres per hour). This jet goes right through the skin; all you feel is a mosquito sting. The device is still in development, but it is expected to be able to treat pigment spots and scars in a few years. Injecting corona vaccines is still the subject of further research.

David Fernandez Rivas recently won the Prince Friso Engineer Prize for his research and may call himself Engineer of the Year 2021 .

This programme can be followed in Dutch and exclusively via livestream, see: www.utwente.nl/sg

Participation is free.

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