Biotechnology

Meet Helio

Lupus is different for everyone. Our mission is to help lupus warriors and their doctors understand their unique cases through an at-home monitoring system, ultimately guiding them towards a more personalized and proactive treatment plan.

Problem

Lupus is unique from person to person, making optimizing care a great challenge. Monitoring is also reactive, where changes to medication are done after patients experience symptoms and flares.

Solution

Implementing an at-home biosensor for daily biomarker monitoring. Daily data will be stored within a mobile app and be correlated with the patient's activities, environment, and treatment. A flare predictor will also be put into gear.

Outcome

Doctors can gain a better understanding of their patient's reactivity to certain treatments, patients can identify their unique environment triggers, and changes to treatment can be made in advance to suppress flares before they occur.

Lupus is a serious problem
0 are diagnosed in the US
0 are diagnosed globally
0 annual deaths
0 top causes of death for girls ages 15-24

Our technologies

The only way to truly create the best treatment plan for each individual is to understand their lupus on a deeper level. We envision a better monitoring system, one at home, on the daily basis and can learn to find correlations between actions and disease activity. Even one that can predict flares.

Nanotechnology

Helio's biosensor takes advantage of technology at the nanoscale to detect biomarkers.

AI

Detecting patterns in the lupus and building a personalized flare predictor.

IT

Real time storing and sending of daily information between patient and doctor.

Biotechnology

A system involving the intersection between biomarkers and electronic health.