The startup IVWear from Groningen competes together with prof. Bart Verkerke of the UMCG for the Medical Inspirator Award of ZonMw. This spring, the project IVWear, the generation of a wearable IV, chosen out of more than 80 contestants as a finalist for this award. The prize in this contest is €75.000,- for the winning project.
Law student at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen Melcher Frankema is one of the three entrepreneurs of IVWear: 'It is our dream to free patients worldwide of the IV post, to which they are attached, so that they can move freely through the hospital and feel less like a patient.'
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Everybody with an email adress can cast their vote for the project 'IVWear makes IV's barable'. The winner will be annouced on November 23.