Signifier Medical Technologies
Improving quality of life, sleep and relationships by tackling the root cause of snoring.
Driving Innovation in the Sleep Market
Signifier Medical Technologies (SMT) is a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialisation of innovative and non-invasive solutions for patients with snoring and sleep-disordered breathing conditions.
Pioneers in challenging the wisdom of conventional snoring and sleep apnoea treatments, we’ve created the first daytime therapy that tackles the root cause of sleep-disordered breathing by physiologically retraining the airway against collapse.
Our Vision
We aspire to revolutionise the sleep market with novel and ground-breaking products that will help solve the conditions of snoring and mild sleep apnoea, making a real impact on the lives of millions of people globally, in an area with significant unmet medical need.
Working with a multidisciplinary team, eXciteOSA® co-founder Professor Akhil Tripathi, was deeply empathetic with many patients who struggle with conventional treatment options for Sleep Disordered Breathing which have failed to change in the last two decades.
Professor Tripathi is a serial medical device entrepreneur with experience bringing innovative products to medical practice improving patients’ lives.
As an innovator, Professor Tripathi is committed to revolutionizing healthcare with truly creative approaches and not merely optimizing existing approaches to their next evolution.
There are many devices for Sleep Disordered Breathing. All of which have problems:
- They had to be worn during sleep
- Many were invariably uncomfortable
- Only treated the symptom, not the cause
- Only effective when in use
- Further disrupted the already poor sleep quality
- Only temporarily alleviated the problem
Wanting to disrupt this dependence on products that have to be worn during sleep, Professor Tripathi developed the world’s first, unique daytime treatment for sleep disordered breathing – eXciteOSA®.
Three years of devoted effort by many highly skilled professionals from sleep medicine, maxilofacial surgery, product development, medical engineering, software engineers and regulatory experts, has led to a simple, intuitive, non-intrusive and safe product that is clinically proven to treat the root cause of sleep disordered breathing.
Akhil Tripathi
Board Member & Co-Founder
Shahzada Ahmed
Board Member
John Bentley
Board Member
Mujtaba Chohan
Board Member
Rupert Connell
Board Member
Rupert Reid
Board Member
Andrew Schumer
Board Member
Chris Tuohy
Board Member
Yasser Zayni
Board Member
Peter Cistulli
Peter Cistulli holds the ResMed Chair in Sleep Medicine at the University of Sydney, where he leads the Sleep Research Theme within the multidisciplinary Charles Perkins Centre. Prof Cistulli is also a former President of the Australasian Sleep Association and a former board member of the Sleep Health Foundation.
Aditi Desai
Dr Aditi Desai is the President of the British Society of Dental Sleep Medicine (BSDSM) and an expert dental surgeon with a special interest in sleep medicine. She has served on the Odontological Council and Sleep Medicine Council of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) and is on the Board for the Association for Respiratory Technology and Physiology, UK (ARTP).
Richard Schwab
Dr Richard Schwab is a professor of medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is affiliated with Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian. Dr Schwab’s groundbreaking research has focused on the pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnoea utilising novel upper airway imaging techniques.
Join our team
At Signifier Medical Technologies we offer a range of exciting career opportunities. We value our employees and strive to create a work environment that is both satisfying and enjoyable.
References
- Prospective cohort study of 50 patients with snoring or mild OSA (Apnea- Hypopnea Index (AHI) <15) with 46 completed the trial. Objective snoring and respiratory parameters were recorded with 2 consecutive WatchPat night sleep studies before and after the use of the device. An intra-oral tongue stimulator (eXciteOSA®) device was used for 20mins, once a day for 6-week period
