Team Leuko | MIT linQ

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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

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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

Disclosures

Image Processing Algorithm to Extract White Blood Cell Counts From Non-invasive, In-vivo, Time-lapse Images of Nailfold Capillaries (MIT 17533K)

Patents

Image Processing Algorithm to Extract White Blood Cell Counts From Non-invasive, In-vivo, Time-lapse Images of Nailfold Capillaries (MIT 17533K)

United States of America Serial No. 62/083712, Filed November 24, 2014

United States of America Serial No. 62/137441, Filed March 24, 2015

Project selected for MIT Translational Fellows Program 2014-15 (represented by Carlos Castro-González)

Foto de Imagen en Acción.

Winner, 2015 Impacto Salud, a Spanish program organized by social enterpreneurship network Ashoka and pharmaceutical company Ipsen.

Semifinalist in 2015 Making more health, a global program organized by Ashoka with pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim.

Selected to the 2016 Rice Business Plan Competition

Carlos Castro Gonzalez named Innovator of the Year in 2015 MIT Technology Review Spain Innovators Under 35.

Team Lueko wins Coulter Grant for translational research

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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

In June 2014, Team Leuko’s Carlos Castro González presented to the Biomedical Innovation Conference in Madrid:

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