Non-invasive white blood cell counting
Imagine a blood cell count device that needs no blood and has the size of a cell phone. Innovative optics sense through the skin, and count white cells as they flow past a miniature lens. The white cell count is the first line indicator for medical applications ranging from chemotherapy management to the detection of life threatening infection in a targeted world population of 4 billion people.
Learn more on Team Leuko’s pitch page
[/vc_column][vc_column fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/3″]Name & Contact
Team Leuko | leuko@mit.edu leuko.mit.edu
Project status
M+Visión project Jan 2014 – Sep 2015
Sector
Oncology. Immunology. Medical devices. Point of care.
Fellows
Carlos Castro-González, Ian Butterworth, Álvaro Sánchez-Ferro, Aurélien Bourquard (original team)
Luis Soenksen Martínez (joined October 2014), Jason Tucker-Schwartz (Joined October 2015)
Collaborators
Jerome Mertz
Boston University
Ephraim Hochberg, Yi-Bin Chen
Massachusetts General Hospital
Carolina Cerrato, Rafael Flores
Hospital de Fuenlabrada
Mirna Pérez, Donatello Castellana
CNIO
María Jesús Ledesma
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Students
Parker Tew
MIT
Alberto Pablo Trinidad
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Media and updates
Un nuevo dispositivo portátil cuenta leucocitos a través de la piel
Agencia SINC
28 September 2015
Leuko, ganador de la primera edición de Impacto Salud
Ashoka News
1 December 2015