The medtech spinout treating Parkinson’s disease with vibrations – Charco Neurotech co-founder Lucy Jung

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🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Lucy Jung, CEO and co-founder of Charco Neurotech, discusses spinning out a medical device startup from academia, the science behind treating Parkinson’s disease with vibrations, balancing regulation with innovation and how devices like Elon Musk’s Neuralink could “maximise our brain”.

Jung, who has a background in design, co-founded Charco Neurotech in 2019, launching out of Imperial College London. It has secured more than $10m in investment for its non-invasive, pebble-shaped device that delivers vibrotactile stimulation to the chest to improve motor performance and alleviate gait freezing for people with Parkinson’s. It can be linked with an accompanying smartphone app to track symptoms and customise treatment. The device is currently used by 900 people, with a further 12,000 on its waiting list.

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0:00.0	Parkinson's is one of the key areas that I got very, very interested because of the impacts,
0:11.0	the symptoms are brought for individuals.
0:14.0	There will be thousands and thousands of 10,000 people across the world will be using the device.
0:21.9	So scaling while we make sure that the quality is there is going to be my absolute focus.
0:31.4	Are you interested in becoming a cyborg in the future?
0:34.4	Am I interested?
0:35.6	I actually am quite interested of like how can we maximise our brain.
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1:29.8	Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly conversation with founders of some of the
1:35.5	UK's high growth tech companies.
1:37.5	Each episode, we will talk through the founder's personal journey, their vision for their
1:41.5	business and their views of the wider tech industry.
1:44.8	And I'm very pleased to say that joining me today is Lucy Young, the CEO and co-founder
1:49.6	of Charco NeuroTech. Welcome, Lucy.
1:52.9	Hello, Jane. How are you doing? I'm good. Thank you. How are you?
1:56.0	I'm good very much. Thank you very much.
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