Aseptika Wins Discovery Start-Ups 2014 Award for Innovative Self-management of LTRC

HUNTINGDON, U.K. - Oct. 24, 2014 - PRLog -- Aseptika Limited (http://www.activ8rlives.com/) was selected as one of five winners out of the eighteen strong field of UK start-up companies pitching for the winning prizes at the Discovery Start-Ups 2014 (http://www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=47697) event held on Wednesday, 22^nd October at Deloitte’s (http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_GB/uk/index.htm) in London.

In its 5^th year the Discovery Start-Ups 2014 competition, organised by Cambridge Wireless (http://www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/) and SETsquared Partnership (http://www.setsquared.co.uk/), attracted its strongest field yet with 80 competition applicants. Of the entrants, 18 start-ups were selected to pitch to a strong panel of technology senior executive judges that deliberated and quizzed the entrepreneurs to assess their technology, its protection, business models and financing position in the fast moving wireless and mobile markets.

Aseptika is a healthcare company developing a self-monitoring service in the form of a home-use sputum test, simple self-monitoring devices and an online user interface known as Activ8rlives (http://www.activ8rlives.com/). Our niche focus is predicting the onset of lung infections (http://www.activ8rlives.com/solutions/clinical-trials/) in people with long-term respiratory conditions. Patients with severe airway disease are often chronically infected by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa and in these patients, despite attempts to treat these infections, complete eradication can be difficult. Flare-ups of the infection (exacerbations) are common, leading to deterioration in symptoms, which can result in 3-4 prolonged hospital admissions per year. Repeated exacerbations result in loss of lung function reducing quality of life, are very disruptive, costly and can result in premature death.

Commenting on the win Kevin Auton, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Managing Director of Aseptika Limited commented:

“We are delighted to be awarded this honour, especially in light of the outstanding quality of the finalists that presented to the Judges on the day. As a healthcare company we utilise wireless technology, cloud computing, connected and wearable devices, combined with a biomarker test still in development. We are working towards helping to empower patients, their family or carers to monitor for declining health in elderly or vulnerable members of the family.

Kevin added further:Our ultimate vision and mission is to provide tools for lung disease patients, to do what has been done for diabetics with home blood glucose tests.”

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Caption: Discovery Start-up 2014 organisers, sponsors and winners, Kevin A. Auton, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Managing Director of Aseptika Limited (Activ8rlives) is located in centre front row position.

About Aseptika Limited (Activ8rlives)

Aseptika Limited is a healthcare company developing and marketing an integrated suite of self-monitoring devices and services under the Activ8rlives brand. We are developing integrated systems which can be used by laypeople and their healthcare service providers to better self-manage (http://www.activ8rlives.com/solutions/self-monitoring-and...) long-term health conditions through self-monitoring.

The Company’s goal is to provide everyone with tools (and the understanding of how to apply them) so that most of us can keep healthy and well for most of the time. Self-management through self-monitoring is the motivation driving what we do.

Activ8rlives is unusual in that we are device agnostic, incorporating sensors and monitors ranging from consumer accessories to in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) with a focus on respiratory disease. All data is held together and can be cross analysed in the Cloud to provide forecasts and learning for the user and clinician.

The Company gained a patent in 2013 protecting the invention of a test for biomarkers (http://www.activ8rlives.com/about/news-and-events/news/2013/10/07/aseptika-awarded-uk-patent-for-home-test-for-lung-infections/) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the sputum of patients, which can be used to detect the on-set of an exacerbation and profile the efficacy of antibiotic treatment for each patient.

Aseptika won first place in a recent competition earlier in 2014 to reward the most “Promising eHealth EU SME”eHealth solution 2014 (http://www.activ8rlives.com/about/news-and-events/news/2014/04/03/aseptika-wins-first-place-for-most-promising-ehealth-solution-competition-2014/#sthash.jm6jQb3Q.dpuf)developed by an early-stage European SME. The 2014 Competition was organized by TICBioMed and had the endorsement of the Health and Wellbeing Unit of DG CONNECT of the European Commission. The judges commended Aseptika for the integrated approach it was taking in the support of patients with long-term respiratory disease (http://www.activ8rlives.com/solutions/clinical-trials/), providing the platform to self-manage their illness through self-monitoring. Central to the Company’s “hospital-at-home” concept, is a test in which the patient measures the level of virulence of the bacteria living in their lungs which from time to time, flare into a full and repeated chest infections.

Aseptika has been shortlisted as finalists for three business innovation awards towards the end of 2014. The first is the Cambridge News Top Innovations (http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Innovations-2014/story-22802672-detail/story.html) awards, secondly the Discovery Start-up 2014 Competition (http://www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/Agenda/DS14%20-%20Agenda%20-%20Final%20V1.pdf) run by Cambridge Wireless where we were selected as a winner and the third is the Hunts Post Huntingdonshire Business Innovation (http://www.huntsbusinessawards.co.uk/) Awards 2014. The entries were for our respiratory hospital-at-home solution and biomarker test, which is currently running as the SENSOR (http://www.activ8rlives.com/sensor) clinical trial with a group of volunteer patients that suffer from COPD or severe Asthma in the Portsmouth area.

For more information on Aseptika Ltd, Activ8rlives and products, please visit: www.activ8rlives.com

Activ8rlives and Activ8rlives.com are trademarks of Aseptika Ltd.

For press information, please contact:

Jessica Auton, Marketing Director, Aseptika Ltd (Activ8rlives)

jessica.auton@aseptika.com

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