WABI reports UMaine spin-off receives Health and Human Services funding for sleep monitoring invention
WABI reported news of a $500,000 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services award, given to a University of Maine spin-off company for research on memory loss in older adults, that was announced by Senators Susan Collins and Angus King. The funding will support a home-based sleep monitoring invention developed by UMaine researchers that has the potential to detect early symptoms of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. Activas Diagnostics LLC, founded by UMaine professors Marie Hayes and Ali Abedi in 2009 and based in the UpStart Center for Entrepreneurship in Orono, develops noninvasive wireless sensor system and software products for diagnostics of traumatic brain injury. This award focuses on bringing the spin-off company’s patented SleepMove product to market as a new approach to diagnostics and monitoring in early stage neurological disease.