5N8 Health Solutions Private Ltd

Cervico-vaginal fluid retriever device for the screening of cervical cancer/CIN/vaginal infections

About

5N8 Health Solutions is a women-led MedTech startup focused on developing low-cost cervico-vaginal fluid collection platforms that enable early screening and diagnosis of cervical and vaginal health conditions. The company addresses a critical bottleneck in women’s healthcare by simplifying sample collection so that the same collected fluid can be used for multiple pathological screenings, improving accessibility, affordability, and scalability of diagnostics.

TRACTION & ACHIEVEMENTS

Funding / Grants

DBT BIRAC BIG, GYTI SRISTI - 65,00,000

Patents & IP

Detection kit for diagnosis of cervical cancer by quantification of visual inspection of acetic acid (519065)- Granted A fluid collection device for collecting cervico-vaginal fluids (572356)- Granted

Awards & Achievements

Tejaswini is a JSPS-HOPE Fellow, selected among 8 students from India to attend the 11th HOPE Meeting with Nobel Laureates (Japan, 2019). She was also part of the Innovations Scholars In-Residence Program at Rashtrapati Bhavan (2018) and received the GYTI-SRISTI Award with a ₹15 lakh grant for developing an affordable cervical cancer detection kit.

Team

Founders from IIT-Hyderabad and clinical collaborators from Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital & Research Institute, Hyderabad.

TEAM MEMBERS

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Dr. Aravind Kumar Rengan

Founder

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Tejaswini Appidi

Founder

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Rohit Srivastava

Core Team Member

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Surya Kumar

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Suseela Kodandapani

Core Team Member

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Aishwarya Tiwari

Core Team Member

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Kalyani Eswar

Core Team Member

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Deeksha Trivedi

Core Team Member

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Himashree Buddhiraju

Core Team Member

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