Start-Up Spotlight: GaitQ Tackles Obscure Parkinson’s Symptom With Unique Device

The Oxford university spinout recently secured $850,000 (£625,000) in pre-seed finance, and a further £135,000 grant to develop its device that prevents gait-freezing episodes.

GaitQ
The gaitQ System

Oxford University spin-out gaitQ has received a £135,000 grant from the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for the development of the gaitQ System to treat gait freezing caused by Parkinson’s disease.

This funding, announced on 29 March, comes on top of £625,000 in pre-seed funding from Oxford University’s fifth innovation fund, and Simon Godwin, the recently

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