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Arizona is becoming a powerhouse for wearable and implantable medical devices, a local multi-billion-dollar industry creating thousands of jobs and transforming patient care. It's one of the reasons I’m proud to serve on the WearTech Center Advisory Board in Phoenix. Last week, at our annual closing event, I had the opportunity to connect with some of the 40 incredible startups in the WearTech program. The energy, innovation, and growth opportunities we discussed were truly inspiring! The industry can also count on top talent graduating from 4 universities: University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and Grand Canyon University. Great to meet with Wes Gullett, Kathleen Lee, Navin Govind, Randal Schulhauser, Chris Yoo and many others at the event! Hexoskin, Carré Technologies Inc., Arizona BioIndustry Association (AZBio), Arizona Technology Council, Medtronic, Dexcom, Stryker, W. L. Gore & Associates, SynCardia Systems, LLC, NeoLight, LLC, Sahar Modares #WearableTech #MedTech #HealthcareInnovation #Startups #DigitalHealth #Phoenix

Exciting news! Hexoskin has been chosen to contribute its medical technologies and expertise to the future Gateway space station that will orbit the Moon in 2027! 🚀 🌕 The Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne has awarded a contract to Hexoskin this month to adapt the Astroskin wearable vital signs monitoring system for Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon. Astroskin wearable sensors monitor 5 vital signs continuously: cardiac activity (ECG), respiratory activity, temperature, blood oxygen (PPG/SpO2), and blood pressure. The convenient form factor allows astronauts to keep working on scientific experiments while participating in clinical trials in space. The Astroskin Bio-Monitor has been in operation aboard the International Space Station National Laboratory (ISS) since January 2019, when it was commissioned by Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques. It is currently used in four clinical trials in low Earth orbit focused on studying the cardiorespiratory system and the accelerated aging effect of microgravity on human physiology. The full press release is available here: https://lnkd.in/gK2XHQBm More info on Astroskin: hexoskin.com/astroskin Carré Technologies Inc., NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European Space Agency - ESA, JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, UAE Space Agency, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Kellie Gerardi, International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS), American Astronautical Society #spacemedicine #clinicalresearch #wearables #sensors #cardiovascular #respiratory #astroskin #spaceflight #space #exploration

Very few wearable devices could measure breathing accurately before Hexoskin came out, and we've since built a world-class research community around the platform. Scott B. Sonnon at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science is one of the researchers who has been doing rigorous, groundbreaking work with Hexoskin wearable breathing sensors for many years to measure cognitive performance and occupational stress. I encourage you to pay attention to his work and many others working on better understanding breathing and its connection with all aspects of human physiology: respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, the immune system, etc. For more information on their methods and results, there's a list of scientific publications on our website here: hexoskin.com/papers Hexoskin, Carré Technologies Inc. #openscience #respiratory #wearable #sensors #cognition #breathing

New HERO funding opportunity with NASA for human spaceflight research! This call for research proposals includes categories corresponding to HRP’s five Elements: Space Radiation, Human Health Countermeasures, Exploration Medical Capability, Human Factors and Behavioral Performance, and Research Operations and Integration. I'm copying text from NASA here: "This NOFO covers all aspects of research to provide human health and performance countermeasures, knowledge, technologies, and tools to enable safe, reliable, and productive human space exploration.   Awards range from under $250K per year for focused, limited efforts (e.g., data analysis) to $1.2M per year for extensive activities (e.g., development of scientific hardware) and will be made as grants. The funds available for awards in each research opportunity offered in this NOFO range from less than one million to several million dollars. This range allows selection from a few to as many as a dozen proposals depending on the program objectives and the submission of proposals of merit. The period of performance for an award can range from one to five years." More info here: https://lnkd.in/gArBk8AJ More info on Astroskin here: hexoskin.com/astroskin NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Ames Research Center, Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne, Carré Technologies Inc., Hexoskin #space #medicine #aerospace #Astroskin (photo: HERA X analog mission crew, 2016)

Back in Vegas this week for the HLTH Inc. conference! Looking to connect with companies with well-differentiated and well designed solutions to improve access to care and diagnostics. Please comment below if you know a startup we should learn about! Designing for health is complex: you need to address clinical and financial needs, align professional and patient incentives and experiences. When you're part of a product team in a startup, you also need to understand why your product will stand out. You don't have the advantages of scale that incumbents have. Your product has to be best-in-class in some dimension. In some cases - and I think that's what makes Hexoskin so special - what your product delivers has the potential to change existing standards of care. New instruments allow us to redefine how we look at diseases, how we develop new therapies, how we provide care, how we improve access to care, for the benefit of patients. Hexoskin, Carré Technologies Inc., Arizona BioIndustry Association (AZBio), Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio), BIOQuebec, MEDTEQ+, Montréal InVivo, HLTH Inc. #HLTH #HLTH2024 #digitalhealth #wearables #diagnostics #digitalbiomarkers #clinicaltrials #innovation #startup #vc #productdesign #bloodpressure #cardiovascular #respiratory

Quality pitches from local VCs at the Founders N' Funders event yesterday at Gilbert's Kiln coworking space! Thanks for Sean Huntington 🍯 and his team for organizing this event, it's exciting to meet so many driven and competent entrepreneurs! Kudos to Aaron Favreau from Arizona Venture Development Corporation, Jeff Kerr from PHX Ventures, Tyler Baldridge from AZ-VC, and Kyle DeLashmutt from Grayhawk Capital for sharing their investment strategy and portfolios with the community. I'm seeing more and more event like this in Phoenix, a sign of a growing startup community! We need more of these gatherings in the east valley, a major hub for technology, defense, and medical devices companies like Medtronic, Dexcom, and Intel Corporation. 🌵 #startups #phoenix #arizona #vc #seed #growth #funding

👕 Dive into AI & Smart Clothing with Pierre-Alexandre Fournier (Hexoskin) at 12:00 pm EST. Let’s discuss the data-driven wardrobe of the future! #AI #Wearables #SmartClothing #HITLABSymposium

If you want to learn about human spaceflight, space medicine, and human factors in spaceships, "A City on Mars" is a must! Kelly and Zach Wienersmith wrote a book that is both fun to read and well researched. More than an extraordinary summary of hundreds of references and interviews, and beyond their fascinating research for first sources, the authors propose an original way to think about our presence in space, on the Moon, Mars, and other locations in our solar system. Looking at the motivation for space settlements, they did a good job in defining the "cathedral of survival" and "hot tub" arguments - you'll have to read it to understand! 😉 The book is available here: https://lnkd.in/gqgxfQxV Aerospace Medicine Commercial Spaceflight Committee, Aerospace Medicine, NASA Ames Research Center, Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne, International Space Station National Laboratory, Carré Technologies Inc., Hexoskin, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith #space #spacemedicine #aerospace #medicine #humanfactors #astroskin #astronaut #humanspaceflight

Less than one week until our September Digital Health Symposium! 🎉 A FREE, virtual event focused on wearables and AI in healthcare. 💻 We’re excited to announce that we’ll be offering 3 prizes during the event! 🎁 Here’s how you can enter: 1️⃣ Register for the Symposium 2️⃣ Log in to the event at 11 AM on Thursday ⏰ 3️⃣ Listen for the special code word 🗣️ that will be mentioned at random points during the symposium. Prizes include: ➡️ Audience shoutout on LinkedIn with a tag ➡️ A 1-year Breakthrough One (BT1) General Membership (valued at $99) 🏅 ➡️ Ticket to join us at the Fall 2024 Summit in New York City (valued at $5,000) 🎟️✈️ ➡️ Sign up for the event here: https://lnkd.in/e7gTKmWK

Healthcare IT News sharing our fundraising announcement today: Hexoskin, a Montreal-based digital health and AI company developing medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics, is very excited to announce today an additional USD $4.2M capital raise to invest in growth, digital biomarkers research, and new AI-based digital diagnostics solutions. Investors include AQC Capital and Anges Quebec (Canada), BDC Capital (Canada), ballas invest (Europe), Deep Divers Ltd (UK), and 19 other US and Canadian private investors. Pierre-Alexandre Fournier, Hexoskin’s CEO, commented, “Hexoskin’s team has over 15 years of experience in clinical AI development and high-resolution wearable sensors. Our investors understand how our digital platform is uniquely positioned to develop a range of diagnostic tests and digital solutions that can address the needs of large populations in disease areas with large unmet needs, such as cardiac, respiratory, and rare diseases.” Hexoskin’s current wearable sensing products (Hexoskin & Astroskin) serve the clinical research, defense, and aerospace markets. Its customers, including CSA, NASA, DOD, Yale Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, and hundreds of research teams across the world, have published over 250 scientific papers with Hexoskin data. Hexoskin smart shirts are also used in pharma clinical trials, and its technology has been part of the International Space Station since 2019 to support clinical trials in space. “We are excited to team up with Hexoskin and its investors to enable its next phase of development globally,” said Laurent van Lerberghe, Co-Founder of ballas invest and former Chief Strategy Officer at Sanofi. “We have been impressed by the wealth of expertise accumulated by Hexoskin with trillions of data points, more than a hundred clinical trials, and over 250 peer-reviewed publications. Through novel higher resolution digital measures and digital biomarkers in clinical and real-world settings, Hexoskin is unlocking the possibilities of early disease detection and high-quality monitoring, hence improving treatment decisions and patients’ quality of life.” More information about the company and the announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gmDfyHbr