
Makani Science
Reinventing respiration monitoring
- Founded
- 2018
- Status
- Active
- Stage
- Early
- Team size
- 2
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Category
- Medical Devices & Diagnostics
- Sector
- Medical Devices
About Makani Science
Makani Science is a medical device company based in Irvine, California. We have created the world's first wireless patch that can accurately and continuously monitor breathing. The company is co-founded by Dr. Michelle Khine and Dr. Michael Chu, two experts in the wearable monitoring space from the University of California, Irvine. The Makani Science system will collect unique breathing waveforms from patients in everyday environments to create the first large database of respiratory patterns associated with different diseases. Data will be collected through systems sold to our initial beachhead market, where we will help improve monitoring safety in patients being sedated for medical procedures. Our long-term goal is to combine machine learning with this database to identify and predict respiratory complications for different patient populations. We have a highly experienced team and will be FDA cleared in our beachhead market within a year.
FDA clearances
1 510(k) clearance on record, 2025.
- Makani ScienceĀ Respiration Monitoring System
K233953
Source: FDA 510(k) database via openFDA.
Clinical trials
1 registered trial with this company as lead sponsor, 2024.
- Status
- Completed (1)
- Conditions
- Respiratory Monitoring
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.
Federal research funding
2 NIH awards totalling $733,955, FY2025 to FY2026.
- Continuous Respiratory Monitoring Platform for Classifying Apnea of Prematurity
Source: NIH RePORTER.
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