Join the WashU Office of Technology Management for a special Office Hours event featuring WashU IP startup, Armor Medical Inc.

Our Office Hours: A Founders’ Journey series is where academic startup founders share their business journeys and participants receive tangible learnings they can immediately apply to their own entrepreneurial pursuits.

Armor Medical, Inc., a WashU IP startup, pioneers solutions to protect and empower women’s health, starting by tackling the leading cause of maternal death, postpartum hemorrhage. Their flagship technology, Maternal aRMOR, is a wrist-worn, noninvasive, real-time monitoring platform designed to help providers detect postpartum hemorrhage earlier — even when bleeding is internal and hidden.

This event will include a panel discussion, moderated by Greg Markiewicz, OTM New Ventures Principal, and featuring Armor Medical founders:

• Kelsey Mayo, PhD
  Kelsey Mayo, PhD, is the co-founder and CEO of Armor Medical Inc., a biomedical device company focused on protecting moms through early hemorrhage detection. Dr. Mayo is a multidisciplinary scientist with over 15 yrs of precision medicine experience, including developing one of the world’s largest and most diverse datasets for precision medicine research. She specializes in building teams that bridge the worlds of science and product to translate and launch precision health solutions. Dr. Mayo is also a mother and a survivor of obstetric hemorrhage and believes there is an urgent unmet need for engineering innovation to improve maternal health outcomes. As CEO of Armor Medical Inc., Dr. Mayo is leveraging her expertise in precision medicine and product development to help address the unacceptable state of women’s health. 
• Christine O’Brien, PhD
  Christine O’Brien, PhD is the co-founder and CSO of Armor Medical Inc. She joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis as an assistant professor in July 2022. O’Brien received her PhD from Vanderbilt University and completed postdoctoral training in the Biophotonics Research Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. O’Brien received a K99/R00 award from the National Institutes of Health to develop novel wearable sensors for the detection of postpartum hemorrhage. She has established a research lab focused on developing and translating non-invasive optical spectroscopy and imaging tools to solve global problems in women’s health and recently co-founded a start-up company to help translate this technology to patients.

Registration is required. 

For more information, please see the event webpage.

Questions? 

Please contact Leslie Roettger at leslie.roettger@wustl.edu.