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VIPUN Medical announces topline study results from LOTUS

VIPUN Medical announces topline study results from LOTUS clinical investigation performed to validate the VIPUN Gastric Monitoring System (GMS) as a gastric motility monitoring system Data show a strong correlation in the duration of gastric contractility measured by means of the VIPUN GMS and manometry (golden standard) technique. Data show that the contraction ...

June 5th, 2023|News|

VIPUN Medical is proud to be awarded ISO 13485:2016 certification

VIPUN Medical is proud to be awarded ISO 13485:2016 certification and announces the inclusion of the first subject in the LOTUS Clinical Investigation at the University Hospital Leuven, Belgium. Mechelen, Belgium, March 31, 2022 – VIPUN Medical, a company engaged in the development of innovate nutrition devices announces that earlier this month, it ...

May 17th, 2022|News|

Baxter and VIPUN Medical announce collaboration

Baxter and VIPUN Medical announce collaboration to commercialize innovative gastric monitoring system to help enhance clinical nutrition Innovative system measures stomach motility to help clinicians identify enteral feeding intolerance Technology designed to help address malnutrition in the ICU and support clinical decision-making Baxter gains exclusive distribution rights to bring system to clinicians worldwide ...

July 24th, 2020|News|

VIPUN Medical announces topline results for the ANTERO-3 clinical study

The VIPUN Gastric Monitoring System (GMS) exemplifies the gastro-intestinal feedback loop, demonstrating that gastric motility, as assessed with the VIPUN GMS can be used as a tool to guide enteral nutrition speed. VIPUN Medical bvba is a KU Leuven spin-off aiming to improve clinical outcomes by developing medical devices for stomach function monitoring. The VIPUN ...

November 27th, 2019|News|

ANTERO-1 Clinical Study Results publication

VIPUN Medical announces the publication of the ANTERO-1 clinical study, evaluating the ability of the VIPUN Gastric Monitoring System to distinguish normal versus pharmacologically- impaired gastric motility, in the Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility. VIPUN Medical announces the online publication in the Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility of the results from the completed First- ...

October 9th, 2019|News|

Enrolment completion for the ANTERO-2 and ANTERO-3 clinical studies

VIPUN Medical and KU Leuven announce the full enrolment of the ANTERO-2 clinical study, evaluating the safety and feasibility of using the VIPUN Gastric Monitoring System in the Intensive Care Unit, and the ANTERO-3 clinical study, evaluating the impact of enteral nutrition infusion rate on gastric motility, measured with the VIPUN Gastric Monitoring System. ...

August 5th, 2019|News|

EIT Health Headstart awarded for VIPUN Medical by the Board of EIT Health Belgium-Netherlands

Nico Van Tichelen, VIPUN Medical CEO: “We thank EIT Health for this recognition as medical device start-up with promising technology and look forward to executing the awarded project. The project, which entails patent strategy evaluation, as well as clinical, regulatory, health economic analysis and planning, has a total value of € 62,500 and will ...

June 21st, 2019|News|

VIPUN Medical awarded VLAIO grant of € 500.000

VIPUN Medical receives € 500k non-dilutive funding from Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship. VIPUN Medical is a spin-off incubation project from the KU Leuven, and has the ambition to develop and commercialize diagnostic and interventional medical devices based on an innovative and patent-protected concept of gastric motility monitoring. VIPUN Medical offers enabling physicians to make ...

December 18th, 2018|News|

VIPUN Medical is Techtour winner

VIPUN Medical is one of 24 companies which have won the European Venture Contest Final 2018 in Düsseldorf. Over 2400 companies from 27 countries in Europe participated in the contest. VIPUN Medical develops a novel Gastric Monitoring System to assist physicians in making smart decisions about the mode, timing and speed of medical nutrition. ...

December 18th, 2018|News|

Falling Walls Venture Finalist 2018

VIPUN Medical was announced as finalist at the Falling Walls Venture meeting in Berlin. Presented by Pieter Janssen, nominated by KU Leuven. Falling Walls Venture is an international forum for outstanding science based start-up companies, venture capitalists and strategic investors as well as their wider academic and business environment. Twenty-five leading academic institutions present ...

November 18th, 2018|News|