Nokia Sensing X-Prize Challenge Finalists Strut Their Stuff

October 24, 2014 – The Nokia Sensing XChallenge has a goal to transform personal health through sensing technology. A $2.25 million purse is on the line for those organizations whether private or institutional that develop smarter digital health solutions incorporating bio-sensor technology. Sensing can be used for detection, assessment, management and treatment of disease. The XChallenge seeks to reward those who provide alternatives to current medical laboratories used for patient testing. This includes technology for continuous monitoring as well as for faster diagnosis of disease or medical conditions. Imagine a test that samples exhaled breath and provides diagnostic indicators for a wide range of diseases. Or a device that scans the eye to predict the likelihood of a person having a stroke. Or a sensor that can smell the presence of cancerous tumors.

Launched in 2013, the Nokia Sensing XChallenge is reaching its finals with eleven teams in the running. They include:

• Archimej Technology (Evry, France), a start-up developing a self-help remote blood analyzer that produces 20 biomarkers measuring cardiac, kidney, liver and lipid profiles from one drop of blood.
• Atoptix (State College, Pa.), a Pennsylvania State University entry focused on mobile-based sensing of blood and tissue to assess personal health.
• Biovotion (Zurich, Switzerland), a wearable multi-sensor cdevice monitoring monitoring a wide-range of physiological vital signs.
• DMI (Cambridge, Mass.), a sensor that assesses hundreds of clinical lab test results from a single drop of blood or other bodily fluids and broadcasts the results to any mobile device.
• Eigen Lifescience (Stanford, Calif.), a Stanford University entry developing an ultra-portable clinical lab for rapidly detecting infectious diseases and determine immune status for diseases such as Hepatitis-B and C infections which impact 500 million people worldwide.
• Endotronix Wireless Health Monitoring (Woodridge, Ill.), a miniature, implantable sensor that can be put into a blood vessel, and combined with mobile reader provides health monitoring for patients suffering from chronic heart failure, a condition impacting 20 million people around the world annually.
• eyeMITRA (Cambridge, Mass.), a Massachusetts Institute of Technology entry developing a mobile phone-based imager for early detection of diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of adult blindness.
• Golden Gopher Magnetic Biosensing Team (Minneapolis, Minn.), a University of Minnesota, Mayo Clinic led team developing a sensing device that can detect up to 10 health indicators.
• GUES (London, England), an Imperial College team developing a sensor with mobile app that detects sleep apnea and hypopnea.
• Hemolix (Tampa, Fla.), a University of South Florida team developing a mobile technology for early detection of HELLP syndrome, a dangerous pregnancy complication that takes the lives of hundreds of thousands mothers and babies worldwide every year.
• SensoDx (Houston, Texas), a team focused on developing sensor technology that can take a saliva sample to create a cardiac scorecard to assess cardiac risk at a an early stage.

The public can help determine the winner. Watch the videos provided on the links in this blog posting and visit the Nokia Sensing XChallenge site to vote.

The Nokia Sensing XChallenge is just one of the many X-Prizes changing our world by making what seemed impossible possible. Whether it is commercializing outer space, launching space tourism, addressing ocean acidification remedies, fighting climate change, or teaching literacy and numeracy to hundreds of million children through technological innovation, X-Prize has become a positive disrupting force in our 21st century.

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