Project description
Helping women navigate perimenopause
Every woman goes through menopause, and this life transition can start up to 10 years earlier, a stage known as perimenopause. Women experience a wide range of symptoms during perimenopause that significantly impact their quality of life as well as their health, well-being, and participation in the workforce. The diagnosis and treatment of perimenopause is totally reliant on symptoms reported by women to their clinicians. Regrettably, this results in 70 % of the women seeking help being left untreated, 12 % for up to 5 years. The EU-funded identifyHer project will develop an AI-powered digital platform and biosensor to provide objective data on perimenopausal symptom frequency and severity. Now, women will be empowered with information about their own symptom profile that will help them manage this difficult time more effectively.
Objective
Menopause can have extremely negative consequences on the quality of life, health, & work productivity of women due to the symptoms they experience. Every woman goes through menopause (~440m globally) but the transition to this point, known as perimenopause, can last 5-10 yrs. There are up to 35 symptoms of perimenopause that affect women and 75% report moderate to-severe symptoms that interfere with their life (330m women). There are no blood tests to diagnose perimenopause and treatment depends on the symptom profile but there are no objective ways to detect the symptoms, quantify their frequency & severity or track changes in profiles over time. Clinicians spend most of their time validating the self-reported information from women and of the 60% of women that seek help for their perimenopausal symptoms, 70% remain untreated. The gap in the market is the availability of objective symptom data that can (i) provide women with information they need about their perimenopausal symptoms, (ii) be shared with their clinicians to get an earlier and more accurate diagnosis. Our innovation is a novel, first-of-its-kind, product to objectively detect and track menopausal symptoms. We have developed a technology enabled AI platform using a biosensor patch that sits under the breast on the left-hand that can detect the frequency & severity of perimenopausal symptoms. Our objectives, in line with the expected impact of the Women TechEU programme, are (i) to build a digital platform, allowing us to demonstrate a D2C product for perimenopausal symptom detection, (ii) to use the mentoring & training sessions to prepare a market entry strategy for a D2C product.; (iii) to de-risk private equity investment in a female led, Femtech company by having a demonstrable product. We have an experienced, gender-balanced, team made up of leading product development, clinical, software development & commercialisation experts, with a track record of delivering projects on time and in budget.
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
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W91AY77 Brannockstown
Ireland
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