The newly founded start-up AquaWomb is developing a liquid-filled incubator for clinical practice using insights from the Horizon study āPerinatal Life Supportā. Their dream: to give premature children a better start, by allowing them to develop immersed in amniotic fluid until they are ready to breathe air.
Now that the Horizon study on Perinatal Life Support (PLS) has been completed, a number of researchers are starting follow-up research within the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Industrial Design. ResearchersĀ Myrthe van der VenĀ andĀ Guid Oei,Ā together with business developer Marcel Quist, chose a different path. Together with TU/e, they founded theĀ company AquaWomb, with the dream of bringing a working liquid-filled incubator into clinical practice.
Premature children
The company focuses explicitly on the clinical environment where these very premature babies are cared for. In the Netherlands, this is usually done in a NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) - an intensive care unit for very young children.
Before the Aquawomb team can bring a fully functioning liquid-filled incubator to the market, the scientific results must be further developed into a product. To this end, the company expects to run on innovation and research subsidies in the first few years. The roadmap for the development steps of the liquid-filled incubator is made on the basis of customer research that is currently taking place.
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