Zenflow - Development of the Zenflow Spring System

Disease/Area:

Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH), also known as enlarged prostate, is the most common cause of obstructive lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in men. The walnut sized prostate gland surrounds the male urethra just below the bladder outlet. As the prostate enlarges with age, it encroaches on the urethra and obstructs urine flow from the bladder, leading to urinary straining, frequency, urgency, and nocturia. These symptoms significantly impact quality of life, causing sleep disturbance, social life disruption, psychological burden, and inadequate sex life.

Zenflow Inc. is a medical device company focusing on minimally invasive solutions for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Zenflow has a small team of experts enthusiastic about treating BPH. Each member brings their unique expertise to provide a holistic view on addressing challenging technical concerns, providing diversity and simultaneously autonomy.

Position/Project summary:

Zenflow’s R&D team is currently working on advancing the existing platform to ensure device readiness for our upcoming FDA clinical trial. The intern’s role at Zenflow will be to assist with engineering development and testing of the Zenflow Spring System. The intern will work very closely with Zenflow R&D engineers to assist with designing and making prototypes, designing test fixtures and test prototypes, as well as conducting testing of prototypes and product. The intern will also be involved with ensuring we meet our Quality System Requirements for a medical device, by participating in inspections of incoming product and final product and final product builds.

Skillset requirement:

Zenflow is seeking internship candidates with an engineering degree (mechanical or biomedical). Ideally, the candidate has experience in CAD modeling (specifically with use of Solidworks). Furthermore, ideally the candidate is interested in a future career in medical devices.

Job responsibilities:

• Help to complete device builds for upcoming European and US clinical trials in a clean room environment

• Help to test prototypes of devices, and help design any next iterations

• Help build design verification & validation clinical units in a clean room environment

• Test devices for design verification & validation – including full-system testing (cadaveric and bench testing), and subassembly testing (tensile tests).

Impact of this project to the company:

The projects the intern will partake in will have a lasting impact to the company. Since we operate as a small start-up team, we believe that all voices around the table can provide a valuable opinion. As a result, we have had interns invent ideas that have not only been patentable, but have gone on and made a difference in our clinical product and patients’ lives.