Company
Sandstone is an innovative technology and healthcare start-up company producing medical products and research tools designed to improve healthcare by bringing the point of care closer to the patient, increasing access, reducing costs, improving sample preparation, and enhancing performance of bodily fluid analyses including blood and semen.
Sandstone specializes in innovation that reduces the size and power requirements for applying centrifugal force to separate, stabilize, and analyze clinical samples. Advancements in microfluidics and mesofluidics work hand in hand with the centrifuge innovation to create CentriFluidics™. CentriFluidics is a new capability that combines the power of innovation in both of these fields transforming the analysis process and enabling cost savings, performance improvement, and access to health care to millions who are not reachable today.
Sandstone first commercialized its CentriFluidic technology with the Trak Male Fertility Testing System – an FDA approved at-home consumer device that can be mass produced and marketed to the millions of people trying to start their family. Trak is sold in multiple channels and has proven that microfluidic and mesofluidic consumables can be mass produced in consumer friendly, at-home use products designed to extend access to health information and care.
The Sandstone Way
Sandstone is made of an incredible group of scientists, researchers, marketers, and professionals that believe in challenging the status quo and acting with a sense of urgency to solve some of healthcare’s biggest challenges with improvement in technology and by empowering patients and caregivers. We have a track record of success, demonstrated agility, and an approach to partnership that places the needs of our customers first, ahead of our own to create a model of shared success.
Management
Scientific Advisory Board
- L. Fredriksen, U.Y. Schaff, S. Naab, K. Harmon, A. Culver, R. Naval, J. Verhey, M.L. Eisenberg, and G.J. Sommer. “Evaluation of a Preconception Male Fertility Risk Assessment Scoring Algorithm with Men Actively Trying to Conceive” Journal of Urology 199 (4), e222 (2018).
- G.J. Sommer, A. Wesselink, T.Q. Trinidad, U.Y. Schaff, M.L. Eisenberg, E.E. Hatch, L.A. Wise. “Using an in-home semen testing system to evaluate total sperm count and time to conception: a pilot study” Fertility & Sterility 108, e79-380 (2017).
- U.Y. Schaff, L. Fredriksen, J.G. Epperson, S. Naab, T. Quebral, M.J. Sarno, M.L. Eisenberg, and G.J. Sommer. ”Novel centrifugal technology for measuring sperm concentration in the home” Fertility & Sterility 107, 358-364 (2017).
- C.-Y. Koh, U.Y. Schaff, M.E. Piccini, L.H. Stanker, L.W. Cheng, E. Ravichandran, B.-R. Singh, G.J. Sommer, and A.K. Singh. ”Centrifugal Microfluidic Platform for Ultrasensitive Detection of Botulinum Toxin” Analytical Chemistry, 87, 922-928 (2015).
- D.I. Walsh III, G.J. Sommer, U.Y. Schaff, P.S. Hahn, G.J Jaffe, and S.K. Murthy. ”A centrifugal fluidic immunoassay for ocular diagnostics with an enzymatically hydrolyzed fluorogenic substrate” Lab on a Chip, 14, 2673-2680 (2014).
- U.Y. Schaff and G.J. Sommer. ”Whole Blood Immunoassay Based on Centrifugal Bead Sedimentation” Clinical Chemistry, 57, 753-761 (2011).
- NIH SBIR #1R43AI108206-01A1 “Ultra-Sensitive Point-of-Care Toxin Diagnostics” (PI Greg Sommer, PhD)
- NIH SBIR #1R43HD76536-01A1 “Rapid, Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis” (PI Greg Sommer, PhD)
- NIH R21 #1R21HD094322-01 “Feasibility of in-home semen testing in a North American preconception cohort study” (PI’s Lauren Wise, SCD & Michael Eisenberg, MD)
- Men’s Health Magazine: Trak Named #1 New At-Home Health Test (Sept 2017)
- MedCity News INVEST Pitch Perfect contest – Winner (May 18 2017)
- #GameChangers Award – Innovation Tri-Valley (March 2017)
- Molecular Med Tri-Con Swimming with the Sharks Venture Competition – Winner (March 2016)
- UPS X-Port Challenge – Winner (Aug 19 2015)
- 40 Under 40 – Diablo Magazine (Sept 2015 – Print Edition)
- San Francisco Business Times: Top 40 Most Innovative Life Science Companies (May 29 2014)
- Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge – Winner (May 2013)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Reveals Results Of Digital Male Fertility Risk Assessment Algorithm With Men Trying to Conceive (May 16, 2018)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Announces Military and Veterans Discount Program to Honor Service People (May 8, 2018)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance and Commercial Launch of Trak® Volume Cup (Apr 24, 2018)
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Trak® Male Fertility Testing System Deployed in NIH-Funded Research Study on Fertility and Pregnancy (Mar 27, 2018)
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Sandstone Diagnostics to Showcase Trak™ Fertility Products at HIMSS 2018 Intelligent Health Pavilion™ (Feb 21, 2018)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Raises $5.8 Million in Series A1 Financing (Jan 16, 2018)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Research Results Reveal Higher Sperm Count Helps “Trying to Conceive” Couples Get Pregnant Faster (Nov 1, 2017)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Releases Fertility Risk Assessment Insights Identifying Threats to Male Reproductive Health (Oct 18, 2017)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Announces Programs and Sponsorships Supporting Men’s Health Week 2017 (June 12, 2017)
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New Trak® Male Fertility Testing System Empowers Men to Measure, Track and Improve Sperm Count from the Comforts of Home (Jan 10, 2017)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance for the Trak® Male Fertility Testing System (June 9, 2016)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Announces Launch of Men’s Health and Fertility Mobile App at Health 2.0 Fall Conference (Oct 6, 2015)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Awarded $150,000 Federal Grant to Develop New Medical Technology (July 9, 2014)
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Sandstone Diagnostics Awarded $150,000 Federal Grant (Sept 13, 2013)
- Sandstone Diagnostics Wins Award for ‘Most Innovative New Healthcare Product’ (July 3, 2013)