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发表于 2026-3-13 10:58:08
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Pulse Medic Startup Award Sharing
Speaker 1: Congratulations! You just won the startup competition here at the health tech with your startup company. Please share with us a little bit more about Pulse Medic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. First of all, we're super excited for winning. We came all the way from Edmonton in Canada to this event, and so grateful to be here and to win. So, Pulse Medic, we're building a medical device to treat eye disease, and specifically we're treating an eye disease that's called eye floaters. I know in some languages it's called eye flies. When you look at a bright screen, you see those black dots or lines in your vision that float around—so that's what those are. And those impact about 50% of adults, and 10% of those who have floaters actually have severe floaters. And we're the first to build a treatment for that, and the way it works is it's an image-guided laser treatment system. So essentially we image the floater, and then we're lasering them in the back of the eye.
Speaker 1: How quickly can you help a patient? How far are you in your startup journey?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so first of all, we've already imaged about 250 patients to date, and that's for the purpose of actually understanding what floaters look like and all that. On the treatment side, actually this year is a very exciting year, because we're moving towards our first in-human treatment. So that'll be a first clinical study with the treatment system, and we've worked about 5 years to get to this stage. And that's very exciting. We are still 2 to 3 years away past that to get to commercialization.
Speaker 3: There are some challenges that exist of course as we think about AI. You know, for us, we're using a diagnostic assist, right? So there are some elements that we're allowed to essentially train our data on real patient imaging, right? So we're planning on pursuing that regulatory pathway in Canada, and in North America generally in the next couple years. So, very excited about that opportunity.
Speaker 1: We're here in Balsall, surrounded by life science, surrounded by projects like Uptown Balsall. It's a big connection to AI, to quantum also. Is it kind of also an inspiration for you to maybe be here in this surrounding?
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely. It's been amazing this whole event in the last two days. We weren't exactly sure what to expect given we're from Canada, haven't been to this part of the world before, but the event has been fantastic. The connections and networking—we just continue to be amazed by the connections and the people here. So it's been awesome.
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发表于 2026-3-13 06:16:51
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