Market:

On average 20% of couples find difficulties conceiving within the first year of trying. In 40%-50% of these cases, male fertility issues are at the source of the problem. Fertility market globally is significant, reaching up to $40 billion per year.

Technology:

Lucendi Semen Performance Analytics is aimed to be a rapid (<2 minutes), simple-to-use, inexpensive, compact, lightweight, and portable platform for automated analysis of sperm characteristics, ideal for repeated and continual testing. All of these characteristics enable it to be applicable to a variety of monitoring/diagnostic needs for in-home, in-field and point-of-care testing.

Advantages:

• Inexpensive, portable and lightweight
• Accurate and detailed semen characterization
• Automated analysis through machine learning
• Significantly larger field of view, better statistical analysis
• High throughput

Development Stage:

• Advanced Prototype

Patents Issued:

• Compact automated semen analysis platform using lens-free on-chip microscopy, U.S. Patent No. 8,842,901, 9/23/2014

Select Publications:

• Compact and Light-Weight Automated Semen Analysis Platform Using Lensfree on-Chip Microscopy | Analytical Chemistry
• High-throughput lensfree 3D tracking of human sperms reveals rare statistics of helical trajectories | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
• Sperm Trajectories Form Chiral Ribbons | Scientific Reports
• High-throughput analysis of horse sperms’ 3D swimming patterns using computational on-chip imaging | Animal Reproduction Science

Contact:

Email: info@lucendi.org
Phone: 858-405-8319
Website: www.lucendi.org
Graduated in 2019