Aalborg University-Startup Wants To Revolutionize the Way We Treat Chronic Pain A couple of years ago, the people behind REDO - Neurosystems did not know each other. But after AAU matched the founders with each other and armed them with a series of groundbreaking research findings, the company is getting ready to enter the market next year with a revolutionary technology that can reduce the pain of chronic pain patients Written by Erik Lillelund
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nlike most university startups, Tor Emanuelsen, Mathis Rosenberg Sørensen, and Morten Kirkegaard did not really know each other. But after Morten as a student had helped publish some groundbreaking research results in a research group, AAU immediately began searching for enterprising students and alumni to match him with. The research could become a new startup with the right people at the helm, the university believed. “In many university startups, people have done a study project or written a thesis together. But we got to know each other through SEA (Student Entrepreneurship AAU). The university had their hands on a series of interesting neurological research results and thought that there was a great potential for commercialization,” says Mathis Sørensen, COO and co-founder of REDO - Neurosystems. Based on existing research, the three AAU-people behind REDO - Neurosystems have developed a technology that can visualize pain-related brain activity
in real time. And although the breakthrough is still being tested, it bodes well for the pain patients of the future, who through physical and mental rehabilitation can learn to manage the brain activities related to the pain - and in the long run control it. The entrepreneurs have very different backgrounds: Morten has a master’s degree in Translational Medicine and is clinically responsible in REDO, Tor has a master’s degree in Organization and Strategy and CEO and Mathis has a master’s degree in Communication and is responsible for communications. In 2020 Rasmus Lund, cand.it in Games and Interactive Media Design, joined the company and works as a CTO. A varied bunch. “One of our strengths is definitely that we do not have internal competition. We each come with our own background and competencies, and this gives a completely natural division of responsibilities. It is to a large extent SEA’s merit that managed to bring different skillsets together in one unit,“ says Mathis Rosenberg Sørensen.
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