Last summer, ExoRenal founder Dr. Jake Lee visited Baltimore to participate in a customer discovery program atthe LaunchPort at City Garage. Now, the company is headquartered at the medical device accelerator inside Port Covington’s bus garage-turned-innovation hub.
Lee recently relocated from Vermont, moving the company to continue development of a device for home dialysis. The company grew out of 15 years of research and development by Lee that set out to bring a new generation of technology to the process of filtering and purifying blood with a machine when a kidney can no longer perform these essential functions.
ExoRenal, which was founded more than a decade later, is creating a device that includes components designed to address maintenance and environmental issues. Plus, he said, it’s designed to be easier to move around for a patient at home.
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