Monday, August 31, 2020

Formsense Part Of $2.4M Grant Award

San Diego-based Formsense, a startup developing wearables and "smart apparel", says it has been chosen as a technology partner for a $2.4M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). According to the company, it is part of a team from Umass Amherst, which is looking to deploy and test a new mobile health system--based on its wearables--to monitor and encourage movement and activity in the weak upper limb of stroke survivors in an ambulatory setting. The company said the Principal Investigator of the grant is Prof. Sunghoon (Ivan) Lee, a health informatician from UMass Amherst's Institute of Applied Life Sciences (IALS). Formsense is led by founder and CEO Nathan Ramasarma.

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