Loop Medical said today that it has received a $3.2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support pre-production and clinical trials required for the global registration of its blood collection device. The foundation had previously given the company a $400,000 grant.
Based at the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Loop Medical designed the device to be painless, easy-to-use and able to collect samples that are large enough for common high-throughput blood analyzers. The device was also designed to improve safety, particularly in countries with low medical resources.
