{"id":2076,"date":"2025-03-27T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.ncsu.edu\/win\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:00:16","slug":"a-duke-startup-raises-5m-for-a-new-treatment-for-lung-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.ncsu.edu\/win\/a-duke-startup-raises-5m-for-a-new-treatment-for-lung-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"VQ Biomedical raises $5M for a new treatment for lung injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/raleigh\/2025\/03\/27\/duke-startup-vq-biomedical-raises-5m-for-a-new-treatment-for-lung-injuries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the Full Article by Zachery Eanes for Axios Raleigh<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vqbiomedical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VQ Biomedical<\/a>, a startup born at Duke University, has secured $5 million in funding to advance a device it says will treat severe lung injuries in a less invasive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why it matters:&nbsp;<\/strong>The medical device startup is charting a new way to alleviate acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) \u2014&nbsp;a potentially deadly condition where a person&#8217;s lungs fill with fluid due to an infection or injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the worst cases, ARDS is treated using mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which pumps blood to and from the patient&#8217;s body through an external machine that adds oxygen, removes carbon dioxide and regulates temperature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Between the lines:&nbsp;<\/strong>But those treatments come with their own health risks&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"is-text wp-block-ncst-buttons\">\n    \n<div class=\"wp-block-ncst-button\">\n      <a\n        class=\"ncst-block__button-link btn\"\n        href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/raleigh\/2025\/03\/27\/duke-startup-vq-biomedical-raises-5m-for-a-new-treatment-for-lung-injuries\"\n        data-ncst-lightbox=\"false\"\n                      >\n                  <span class=\"text\">Read Full Article<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span>\n              <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Article by Zachery Eanes for Axios Raleigh &#8211; VQ Biomedical, a startup born at Duke University, has secured $5 million in funding to advance a device it says will treat severe lung injuries in a less invasive way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":2081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"displayCategoryID\":9,\"showAuthor\":false,\"showDate\":false,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"showReadingTime\":false,\"subtitle\":\"\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[225,9],"tags":[56,182,178,75,59,223,238,47],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-link-to-external-news","category-news","tag-angel-investing","tag-harbright-ventures","tag-nc-state-entrepreneurship","tag-nc-state-university","tag-north-carolina-startups","tag-sonovascular","tag-vq-biomedical","tag-wolfpack-investor-network"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":9,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":9,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":131,"filter":"raw"},"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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