IncuBlanket

Application

• Designed for use in low-resource settings. Current focus is on rural sites in India whose closest health care facility is a community health center or midwife.

Advantages

• Components will feature heat retention, light weight, comfort, and low cost;
• Waterproofed outer cover will prevent water from decomposing the reflective layer and damaging the insulation layers;
• Warmilu's IncuBlanket is currently available for purchase at USD65;
• Reusability in the IncuBlanket heat source.

Important Milestones Achieved

• Fully developed prototype
• Strong efficacy data collected in 3-month pilot clinical trials in Bangalore, India
• Patent pending
• Regulatory pathway has been mapped

Proposed Next Steps in Development: 

• Obtain FDA approval for the heat source; obtain CE mark for the IncuBlanket 
• Continue to ship IncuBlankets to pilot NGOs and heat packs to EMTs for trial and feedback
• Commercialization of Consumer Ready Product Next Steps:
  • Optimize production line 
  • Finalize distribution channels
  • Optimize export of IncuBlanket and identify the logistics for different order volumes
  • Raise funding

Partnerships/Collaboration Network

• University of Michigan
• University of Michigan, Center for Entrepreneurship
• University of Michigan, The Ross School of Business 
• Michigan Medical Innovation Center
• C. S. Mott Children's Hospital
• MI Social Enterprise Leaders Corps
• Michigan Corps
• Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest
• New Enterprise Forum
• Ann Arbor SPARK
• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• MIT Enterprise Forum Great Lakes

Stage of Development

Field/clinical studies

Funding Source

Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest; Michigan Medical Device Accelerator; University of Michigan, Cente