Boris Kovatchev
Boris Petrov Kovatchev is a professor at the University of Virginia where he is the founding Director of the UVA Center for Diabetes Technology, and a principal investigator of the JDRF Artificial Pancreas Project.
He received an MS in Mathematics from Sofia University, Bulgaria where he also completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1989.[1]
He and his team of more than 25 investigators[2] at UVA have been working on the integration of continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps to create a closed-loop system requiring little or no intervention by the user.[3] He holds 38 patents for technology related to diabetes and blood glucose monitoring.[1]
In 2008, he became the first mathematician to be awarded the international Diabetes Technology Leadership Award, presented by the Diabetes Technology Society,[4] and in 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Gerold & Kayla Grodsky Basic Research Scientist Award for leadership and innovation in type 1 diabetes.[5]
He has an h-index of 100 according to Google Scholar.[6]
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