Awak Technologies announced today that it raised $20 million in Series B funding to support its dialysis technology. The Singapore-based company designed Awak PD as a wearable and ultraportable peritoneal dialysis (PD) system. It offers patients the freedom to undergo dialysis at home and anywhere on the go. It helps to overcome the challenge of […]
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Awak Technologies raises $40m
Awak Technologies announced today that it raised $40 million in an oversubscribed financing round as it readies its Awak PD (peritoneal dialysis) device. Singapore-based Awak said the latest funding is earmarked for late-stage clinical studies and commercialization acceleration for the portable, wearable PD device that does not require medical supervision when administered. The device is […]
Awak Technologies wins FDA breakthrough designation for portable PD device
Awak Technologies said today that it won a breakthrough device designation from the FDA for its wearable Awak Peritoneal Dialysis system. The Awak PD system is a portable, wearable peritoneal dialysis system which allows dialysis to be performed “on-the-go”, the Singapore-based company said. The breakthrough designation was granted based on results from the first-in-human safety […]
Kidney dialysis in a purse | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Singapore’s Awak Technologies Pte. has cut a dialysis machine down to the size of a purse with its portable, wearable artificial kidney.
The product is undergoing animal and lab tests in Singapore and the company hopes to submit data for European and U.S. regulatory review in 2013.
Several U.S. companies are simultaneously developing their own wearable hemodialysis machines, but none have yet hit the market, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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