Founded by an interdisciplinary team of Thomas Jefferson University medical and industrial design students, ALAFLEX Design is developing an ergonomic axillary bandaging system for people with Hidradenitis Suppurativa and related wounds. The startup emerged from the 2017 JeffSolves MedTECH accelerator, where its founders combined patient-care insight, materials research, and human-centered design to create a three-dimensional dressing for the underarm. Its prototype, which has a patent filed and pending, debuted at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 2017.
Soriya, LLCSoriya, LLC is a Philadelphia startup developing products for people with chronic skin diseases. It was co-founded by medical and industrial design students from Thomas Jefferson University.BALA-CYNWYD, PA
HDO HealthFounded in 2021 to commercialize healthcare technologies developed at The Ohio State University, HDO Health is a Columbus-based medical-device company built around a service-minded, data-driven approach. Its founding team brings nearly a century of combined experience, including military, trauma surgery and biomedical-engineering backgrounds, to address difficult needs faced by emergency and combat-care providers. The company’s lead product is the Journiquet™, a junctional tourniquet designed with input from more than 300 end users.
Care+WearCare+Wear is a healthwear company that makes adaptive clothing and accessories for patients and healthcare workers, from PICC line covers to port-access shirts and recovery wear. It began with founder Chat’s effort to create a better PICC line cover after hearing that patients were told to use tube socks, and its products are now developed with clinicians, patients and designers including The Natori Company, Oscar de la Renta and Parsons School of Design. The company says its healthwear reaches millions of patients and clinicians and shares up to 10% of profits with nonprofit organizations.NEW YORK, NY
ARC Trauma, LLCFounded in 2019, ARC Trauma is an Ohio medical-device company known for developing emergency equipment for use at the point of injury. Its work began with a team that brought together engineering and clinical experience to address life-threatening neck wounds, resulting in the FDA-approved Arterial Restriction Clamp for military and civilian care.JAMESTOWN, OH