Leuko Labs Inc.

An MIT spinout measuring white blood cells, using light, to improve cancer patient outcomes

Members

Carlos Castro-Gonzalez

Co-Founder of Leuko Labs Inc.

carlos@leuko.io

Healthcare innovator for more than 15 years. Carlos holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and a PhD in biomedical engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (Spain). He is an expert in medical image analysis and has previously led multidisciplinary teams developing solutions for cardiac diagnosis and meningitis detection. After his PhD, Carlos was selected for the prestigious M+Vision fellowship program at MIT to explore commercialization venues for novel technologies and was awarded top innovator under 35 in 2015 by MIT Technology Review. After MIT, Carlos co-founded Leuko, a medical device startup focused on improving quality of life and outcomes for cancer patients, through the first noninvasive white blood cell monitoring solution. As part of Leuko, Carlos has had ample experience securing dilutive and non-dilutive funding, conducting customer discovery, developing new IPs, and establishing clinical and technical collaborations to bring a new product to market.

Ask Me About:

    1. Spinning out academic research into a commercial venture
    2. Dilutive and non-dilutive fundraising
    3. Negotiating licensing agreements with the Technology Licensing Office

Ganimete Lamaj

Human Factors Engineer at Leuko Labs Inc.

ganimete@leuko.io

I graduated from Boston University’s College of Engineering in 2019 with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and a concentration in Technology Innovation, and have been working for Leuko since. My current role is Human Factors Engineer.

Ask Me About:

  • My favorite musician/band this month!

Ian Butterworth

Chief Technical Officer of Leuko Labs Inc.

ian@leuko.io

As a dual hardware/software engineer and research scientist, driven by the commercialization of biomedical technologies, I have the necessary expertise and motivation to drive and support this project. I have a background in interdisciplinary experimental design, prototyping, and technology validation through 5 years of industrial experience at the UK’s National Measurement Institute, followed by 4 years at MIT as a biomedical research engineer. My initial specialty of metrological research focused on medical and industrial ultrasonics but has since expanded to optical, electromagnetic, and computational science. Throughout my many research endeavors, I have led and worked alongside a wide range of varied disciplinary researchers with a focus on addressing biomedical unmet needs without restriction on the technical domain of possible solutions. I have achieved funding from many different sources, including NIH and foundation sources. Three of the projects I have driven at MIT have spun out into commercial startups, each leveraging patents I am an inventor on, with a further project at an earlier stage on the same path. Within Leuko Labs, I am the Chief Technical Officer and have functioned primarily as the lead developer of the PointCheck optical hardware prototype and data capture software. I will support the work on automation at the core of this grant through leading the development of computational infrastructure to support the new automated analysis system, to enable a scalable product prototype.

Ask Me About:

  • How to find unmet medical needs
  • How to develop medical devices
  • The Julia programming language

Ryan Benasutti

ryan.benasutti@leuko.io