Aaron Hannon - Luminate Medical -Preventing Hair-loss during Chemotherapy
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English - March 18, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBTechnology tech for good tech entrepreneur start-up funding healthcare environment society sustainable iot Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Engineer, Entrepreneur and Inventor, Aaron is focused on taking on patient needs in healthcare, attempting to make a big difference, and learning as much as possible along the way. Aaron is Passionate about putting the patient at the centre of the design and commercialisation process. On today's podcast we discuss his current mission to eliminate hair loss during chemotherapy with his new organisation Luminate Medical.
www.luminatemed.com.
Aaron received the much coveted Thiel Fellowship recipient whilst studying Engineering at NUI Galway but has been an inventor and entrepreneur from his early teens. He founded EnableArm, an assistive technology company with an innovative way to make facial shaving more accessible, which was part of the 2018 TCD LaunchBox Accelerator cohort. Aaron was an Inaugural member of the Unilever Williams Engineering Academy - a unique academy for young engineers, the first of its type in Formula One, which gave him an introduction to both motorsports engineering and manufacturing and supply chain engineering at the highest possible standard.
He has won several accolades including: Best Medical Device Winner at SciFest National Champion & Boston Scientific , 2017. Overall Winner at Ireland Funds Business Plan Competition, 2019 and most recently JCI Ten Outstanding Young People of the World Winner, 2020.
Aaron remains humble, empathetic and patient focused throughout all and determined to continue putting the humanity back into medical care devices.