The healthy blood company
Measuring how well blood delivers oxygen.
Blood banks track how old each unit of blood is. OxyHeme is building a rapid test that shows how well it can still release oxygen.
About
Blood’s most important job is to deliver oxygen. Today, no routine test checks how well a unit of blood can do it.
Donated blood is screened for safety, matched to the patient and used before its expiration date. None of those steps measures how readily the blood will release oxygen, and that ability can vary, even among units that are safe and within date.
OxyHeme is developing a fast, scalable test that measures oxygen release directly, so blood can be judged by how well it works as well as how long it has been stored.
Founded by researchers at Case Western Reserve University. Based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Team
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Zoe Sekyonda, PhD
Co-Founder
Zoe is a biomedical engineer who builds diagnostic tools for blood disorders. She earned her PhD at Case Western Reserve University, where her research led to the oxygen-release test behind OxyHeme, and she is a recipient of the American Society of Hematology’s Graduate Hematology Award.
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William Wulftange
Co-Founder
Will is an MD-PhD candidate at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. His doctoral research in biomedical engineering applies microfluidics to cell therapy, and he brings clinical training and an engineer’s approach to building OxyHeme.
Will on LinkedIn
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