Luis Scolasensitive, supportive and involved in the problems of society, he has decided to participate in a great medical advance that will revolutionize access to diagnostic tests. The Argentine basketball legend has invested in PhysioMRI, the Spanish startup that develops a device in the Polytechnic University of Valencia which aims to reduce the current cost of magnetic resonance imaging, making this expensive machine cheaper to put it within the budget of any medical center.
He project is ambitious and grand. Such a device, which Scola knows so well after more than two decades of a professional basketball career, it costs about a million euros, an amount that PhysioMRI plans to lower to 50.000 euros. Scola is dedicated to the project. “This machine is going to improve people’s lives, not just elite athletes.”
Jos Mara Benlloch, director of the Institute for Instrumentation of Molecular Imaging (I3M), is the project manager. “He impact of an apparatus of this caliber may be comparable to what the simplification of X-rays, improving the quality of medical work and having an impact on people’s lives “.
The project of PhysioMRI, also supported by experience in management and entrepreneurial eagerness to Jonatan Fatalevich, estimates that the cost of MRIs will be considerably cheaper. They will be within the reach of all pockets. The economic relief will mean reducing the price of about 300 euros, which costs an average price, to 75.
The first of the PhysioMRI machines has already been successfully tested at the Leiden University Medical Center in Netherlands. Next March, the Polytechnic University of Valencia have their own machine to continue the development of the project. The plan is to be able to launch it on the market by the end of 2022. “The market surveys that we have carried out to date show us that the machine is widely accepted,” says Jonatan Fatalevich, an old friend of Scola, a legendary godfather to the revolutionary PhysioMRI.
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