Sanguina, LLC
Sanguina has developed AnemoCheck and AnemoCheck Mobile, a new, disruptive point-of-care and in-home system that detects anemia in an inexpensive, simpler way.
- Stage Prototype Ready
- Industry Medical Devices and Equipment
- Location Atlanta, GA, US
- Currency USD
- Founded 2014
- Employees 8
- Incorporation Type LLC
- Website sanguina.com
Company Summary
Sanguina was established to develop and market AnemoCheck, a screening device, which is a rapid, accurate, inexpensive and disposable point-of-care test for anemia. It has been developed and extensively tested and should be available for marketing in early 2016.
Anemia is a major health concern, affecting approximately 2 billion people (30% of the world's population) annually. Anemia often co-exists with other disease states.
Team
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Co-Founder
Tom Stribling has a 30 year record in the health industry. Companies he led have traditionally reached successful and profitable liquidity through sale to larger corporations. Prior to the current venture he started three other companies; one as a new division of a major chemical corp.; a second at the request of a leading VC firm and another that he conceived, privately funded, grew and sold to a major foreign corp. in less than four years.
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Wilbur Lam, M.D., Ph.D.Co-founder and Medical Director
Dr. Lam is Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of hematology/Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. He leads an interdisciplinary laboratory based at Georgia Tech and Emory dedicate to developing new diagnostic techniques for hematologic and childhood disorders.
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Erika TyburskiCo-founder and CEO
Ms. Tyburski began working on AnemoCheck in her senior year of undergraduate school at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After graduating with a bachelor's of science in Biomedical Engineering from Tech in 2012, she joined Dr. Wilbur Lam's laboratory based at Emory and Georgia Tech and continues to conduct prototype development, interference and stability studies and clinical assessments on the product.
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Vice President, Chemistry
Dr. Lyon is Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University in Orange, CA, and is an analytical/materials/physical chemist who has developed new bioanalytical tools for ~17 years. He has extensive experience in redox chemistry and dye-mediated electron transfer systems such as those utilized in AnemoCheck, which he helped characterize and optimize
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Tom StriblingCo-Founder
Tom Stribling has a 30 year record in the health industry. Companies he led have traditionally reached successful and profitable liquidity through sale to larger corporations. Prior to the current venture he started three other companies; one as a new division of a major chemical corp.; a second at the request of a leading VC firm and another that he conceived, privately funded, grew and sold to a major foreign corp. in less than four years.
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Rene GonzalezCFO
Advisors
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Siobhan O'Connor, M.D.Global Health Advisor to Sanguina Dr. O'Connor is a Senior Medical Officer for Global Health at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in Atlanta, GA.Unconfirmed
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