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Recent Updates
Quinto. When sleepiness had no name.
On July 26, 2016, on the A2 in Leventina, a driver with severe sleep apnoea he had no knowledge of rear-ended a stationary car. An entire family died. He was acquitted: no test could have identified the risk before the accident. Ten years later, an IRM Zürich study points to a possible answer in saliva.
Sleep deprivation now detectable in saliva
Researchers at IRM Zürich (University of Zurich) have identified a "sleepiness fingerprint" in saliva - a set of metabolites that change measurably after 24 hours without sleep or four nights of restricted sleep. The study uses machine learning on oral fluid metabolomics with just 12 molecular markers, in a small first study.
Drive Awake is a partner of this research programme, supported by FVS.
Drive Awake platform renewed - Sleep Science section launched
Drive Awake relaunches with a fully renewed platform: multilingual architecture (IT/FR/DE/EN), a new scientific editorial section - Sleep Science - documenting six sleep disorders and their link to road safety, and a redesigned awareness campaign. The entire digital production is curated by Opening®.
Drive Awake social media campaign launching - multilingual content across Instagram and LinkedIn (DE/FR/IT/EN).
Michael Scholz, PhD candidate (IRM Zürich) coordinated a full visit to the IRM Zürich laboratories at the University of Zurich. Drive Awake documented the facilities - forensic medicine, sleep research, metabolomics - deepening the scientific partnership at the core of the project.
Drive Awake begins collaboration with Dotwords - a digital communication agency supporting the social media campaign across all four language channels.
Drive Awake NAS system operational. The shared storage infrastructure is now active with scientific partners, enabling secure collaboration on documentary material and research data.
World Sleep Forum, Monte Verità - documentary interviews with leading sleep researchers on circadian biology and driving risk.
IRM Zürich partnership established - research collaboration on sleep biomarkers and forensic applications begins.
Last revision: 13.07.2026
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