The research builds on a study that Prasad’s team presented at the April 2021 meeting of the American Chemical Society that demonstrated that the sweat sensor could detect CRP to indicate an impending cytokine storm. “We have built a technology to unlock and explore the latest frontier in sweat diagnostics,” Prasad said. Real-time continuous monitoring is possible as sweat is collected on a removable strip, which must be changed daily. In this study, the researchers collected sweat from 18 healthy people who wore the sensor. The first author of the study is Badrinath Jagannath PhD’21, who received a first-tier David Daniel Thesis Award from the Office of Graduate Education for his research on the sensor technology.