Qura’s Tiny Implantables Could Revolutionize How We Treat Hypertension

0s · StartUp Health NOW Podcast · 16 Feb 20:04

When it comes to health technology, often the next big thing is really, really small. Our guest on the show this week, Dr. Will Hendren, has seen personally that when it comes to implanting a medical device in the body, size matters. Dr. Hendren spent decades as a surgeon working with rescue devices like pacemakers, which themselves have evolved from being the size of a pack of cigarettes to being smaller than a triple A battery. It doesn’t take a degree in biomechanical engineering to appreciate that you want a lower profile machine sitting next to your heart. Now, with his company Qura – a member of the StartUp Health community since 2016 – Dr. Hendren is taking that concept to the next level. He and his team are the leading edge of miniaturizing medical devices to such an extreme degree that it opens up a whole new market for remote patient monitoring. In our interview we’ll talk about how Dr. Hendren and his team have built an implantable the size of a vitamin that can take blood pressure readings passively and transmit that information to the patient and their caregiver wirelessly. We’ll talk about some of the tiny tech that it was necessary to invent in order to make this breakthrough possible, and we’ll talk about how remote monitoring at scale could be a gamechanger for hypertension and heart disease, which are two of the top causes of death globally. Let’s get into it! Innovating in Alzheimer’s disease?Learn how you can join ourAlzheimer’s Moonshot. Passionate about Type 1 diabetes?Learn how you can join ourT1D Moonshot. Want more content like this?Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox. Innovators:Health Transformer Universityfuels your health moonshot Funders:Become a Health Moonshot Champion

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