University of Auckland spinout Kitea Health is taking medtech commercial

University of Auckland spinout Kitea Health is taking medtech commercial
COO Natalia Lopez pitched Kitea Health at the Icehouse startup showcase last week. (Image: Icehouse Ventures)
Ben Moore
Kitea Health, an early-stage University of Auckland spinout, is currently walking the long and tricky road to commercialisation, hoping to bring a unique implantable pressure monitoring device to market.The tiny device, which is designed to be semi-permanently implanted in a patient, can receive power from and send data to a communication ‘wand’ through flesh and bone, up to 10cm away.Kitea Health is spearheaded by chief executive Simon Malpas, a bioengineering researcher who has been a professor at the University of Auckland for mo...

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