Application

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We are a MedTech startup tackling one of the toughest challenges in healthcare:

preventing kidney failure

We are developing the first wearable device that tracks kidney function in real time using minimum amounts of sweat, a breakthrough not previously done at scale.

This technology offers a painless and convenient alternative to frequent blood and urine tests,

enabling faster interventions,

improved patient outcomes

Business

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• More than 1 in 7 people has chronic kidney disease (CKD)
• About 9 in 10 with CKD are unaware because symptoms usually appear late
• CKD projected to be 5^th leading cause of death by 2040
• Approximately 1 in 4 Medicare dollars is spent on kidney patients

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• ~300 B € global CKD burden
• Rapid growth in remote monitoring
• Expansion into sports performance & wellness

Science

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Sweat is a biofluid which is rich in biomarkers and can be noninvasively sampled and is therefore the ideal candidate for semicontinuous health monitoring. Despite its advantages, sweat sensing is not yet an established method for health monitoring in the clinical setting, due to the low sweat volumes produced by patients in rest. Therefore, a novel approach is imperative, one that can provide timely information when dealing with small volumes of sweat. We have developed an approach based on discretised microfluidics that enables the use of small volumes of sweat for semicontinuous and noninvasive health monitoring. The sweat sensing platform in development enables usage of low volumes of sweat for analysis and provides a platform to use sweat for health monitoring.

Sweat is a biofluid which is rich in biomarkers and can be noninvasively sampled and is therefore the ideal candidate for semicontinuous health monitoring. Despite its advantages, sweat sensing is not yet an established method for health monitoring in the clinical setting, due to the low sweat volumes produced by patients in rest. Therefore, a novel approach is imperative, one that can provide timely information when dealing with small volumes of sweat. We have developed an approach based on discretised microfluidics that enables the use of small volumes of sweat for semicontinuous and noninvasive health monitoring. The sweat sensing platform in development enables usage of low volumes of sweat for analysis and provides a platform to use sweat for health monitoring.

Originating from Eindhoven University of Technology, our innovative sweat-analyzing patch, BEA, uses discretized microfluidics to continuously and noninvasively monitor kidney health.