Smart insulin pump learns your eating habits to automate diabetes care
NCT ID NCT07517770
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether adding artificial intelligence to an automated insulin delivery system can improve blood sugar control for people with type 1 diabetes. The AI learns each person's meal patterns and automatically gives insulin boluses without requiring them to announce meals. Fifty adults currently using an insulin pump will try the AI-enhanced system for four weeks, and researchers will compare their blood sugar time in range to when they use their own pump or the standard automated system.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- AI-enhanced insulin pump algorithm (AIDANET with Bolus Priming)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could make managing type 1 diabetes easier by reducing the need for manual meal announcements and improving time in range.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with only 50 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The AI system may not work well for all meal patterns or could cause unexpected blood sugar swings.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 50 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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May 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Apr 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age ≥18.0 years old at time of consent 2. Clinical diagnosis, based on investigator assessment, of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) for at least one year. 3. Currently using an automated insulin delivery (AID) system. 4. Willingness to switch to use a commercially approved personal insulin (e.g., lispro or aspart, or biosimilar approved products) within the study pump as directed by the study team. 5. Has one or more supportive companions knowledgeable about emergency procedures for severe hypoglycemia and able to contact emergency services and study staff that either live with participant or located within approximately 30 minutes of participant and able to locate participant in the event of an emergency. 6. Participant not currently known to be pregnant or breastfeeding. 7. If participant can become pregnant, they must agree to use a form of contraception to prevent pregnancy while a participant in the study. A negative serum or urine pregnancy test will be required for all females of childbearing potential. Participants who become pregnant will be discontinued from the study. Also, participants who during the study develop and express the intention to become pregnant within the timespan of the study will be discontinued. 8. Willingness to use the study AIDANET system (CGM, insulin pump, and phone) during the study period. 9. Willingness not to start any new non-insulin glucose-lowering agent during the course of the trial. 10. Willingness to participate in all study procedures. 11. Access to internet at home and willingness to upload data during the study as needed. 12. Investigator has confidence that the participant can successfully operate all study devices and is capable of adhering to the protocol. 13. Participant is proficient in reading and writing English. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Plans to start a new non-insulin glucose-lowering agent (e.g., Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, Symlin, DPP-4 inhibitors, sulfonylureas). Participants may be on a stable dose of such an agent for at least the past month. 2. Current use of an sodium-glucose transport protein 2 (SGLT-2) or SGLT-1/2 inhibitor due to risk of euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). 3. Hemophilia or any other bleeding disorder. 4. History of severe hypoglycemic events with seizure or loss of consciousness in the last 12 months. 5. History of DKA event in the last 12 months. 6. Unstable Stage 4 chronic renal disease or currently on peritoneal or hemodialysis. 7. Currently being treated for adrenal insufficiency. 8. Currently being treated for a seizure disorder. 9. Hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism that is not adequately treated. 10. Use of oral or injectable steroids at the time of enrollment or within the last 2 weeks. 11. Planned surgery during the study period that results in prolonged disconnection from study devices. 12. Known ongoing adhesive intolerance that is not well managed. 13. A condition, which in the opinion of the investigator or designee, would put the participant or study at risk. 14. Participation in another interventional trial at the time of enrollment. 15. Participant with a direct supervisor involved in the conduct of the trial.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology
Charlottesville, Virginia, 22903, United States
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