Tulane spinout LumaWave awarded $1.5 million to improve fetal monitoring during labor
Researchers from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering have received a $1.5 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to advance fetal monitoring technology that can do something current monitoring tools cannot: directly measure oxygen levels in fetal tissue during pregnancy and labor.
The researchers plan to pursue the technology through their spinout company, LumaWave.
The award, through ARPA-H’s Making Obstetrics Care Smart (MOCS) program, supports the continued development of a sensing platform created by Tulane researchers Carolyn Bayer, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and Vinoin Devpaul Vincely, a recent PhD graduate and Tulane Innovation Fellow.
