Founder Fuel: Helping surgeons save stroke victims
For their Capstone Design project, Michael Phillips and his roommate Phillip Cooper (both BASc ’17, mechanical engineering, entrepreneurship option), created a camera that could help surgeons remove blood clots from the brains of stroke patients. That meant making the world’s smallest camera — and making it flexible enough to travel through a maze of veins and arteries.
The result is Vena Medical. A startup fuelled by hard work, funding support and a team of advisors.