Cambridge Temperature Concepts
{{Short description|UK medical device manufacturer}}
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Cambridge Temperature Concepts (CTC)Cambridge Temperature Concepts Limited is a UK registered company (number 5943341) is a UK-based company that specialises in the design and manufacture of continuous physiological monitoring devices. Their main product is a patented fertility monitor called DuoFertility.{{cite web|url=http://www.duofertility.com/|title=The only ovulation tracking system that comes with a personalised service. Our app and sensor predict ovulation cycles and our experts help you make sense of your data|website=DuoFertility.com|accessdate=14 November 2018}}
History
The company was started by six post graduate students (Dr Shamus Husheer, Dr David Naumann, Dr Oriane Chausiaux, Dr. Lydia Ferguson, Chafic Ayoub and Scott Mackie) at the University of Cambridge, England in 2005, and won multiple entrepreneur awards at the University, regionally and nationally, including the Downing Enterprise award,{{cite web|url=http://www.downingcambridge.com/development/projects/downing-enterprise/past-winners|title=Downing College Alumni and Development Home Page - Downing College|website=Downingcambridge.com|accessdate=14 November 2018}} the CUEBiC Business Plan Competition,{{cite web|url=http://www.cue.org.uk/node/1052|title=Where Angels Dare 2007 - Cambridge University Entrepreneurs|website=Cue.org.uk|accessdate=14 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603042305/http://www.cue.org.uk/node/1052|archive-date=2008-06-03|url-status=dead}} and the UKSEC Business Plan Competition.{{cite web|url=http://www.enterprise.ac.uk/news/29/|title=News Detail|website=Enterprise.ac.uk|accessdate=14 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080419035548/http://www.enterprise.ac.uk/news/29/|archive-date=2008-04-19|url-status=dead}} In 2011 the company was named European Wireless Start-up of the year by Qualcomm.{{cite web|url=http://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2011/01/31/qualcomm-announces-finalists-second-annual-qprize-venture-investment|title=Qualcomm Announces Finalists in Second Annual QPrize Venture Investment Competition |website=Qualcomm.com|accessdate=14 November 2018}}
Media coverage
During development, CTC received media publicity, including in Business Weekly, The Cambridge News, and The Telegraph.{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/05/18/ccstartup118.xml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080519131107/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fmoney%2F2008%2F05%2F18%2Fccstartup118.xml | url-status=dead | archive-date=19 May 2008 | location=London | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | first=Richard | last=Tyler | title=Temperatures rise for Cambridge fertility innovators | date=18 May 2008 | access-date=28 December 2021 }}
The company captured national and international media attention with a novel "Pregnant in 12 months or your money back" offer for its DuoFertility product in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/118788/Fall-pregnant-in-12-months-or-get-your-money-back|title=Fall pregnant in 12 months, or get your money back|first=Mark|last=Reynolds|date=6 August 2009|website=Express.co.uk|accessdate=14 November 2018}}{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10589540 |title=Kiwis take guesswork out of conception |author=Grunwell, Rachel |date=9 August 2009 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=22 September 2011}}
The DuoFertility product featured on a BBC television documentary following innovations to retail success,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010hgwc|title=BBC Two - Britain's Next Big Thing|website=BBC|accessdate=14 November 2018}} resulting in the UK pharmacy chain Boots stocking the product.
DuoFertility
The DuoFertility device can aid the practice of fertility awareness or natural family planning (although marketed only to help achieve pregnancy, while other systems for FA and NFP can also be used as birth control). The device is a stick-on patch containing a coin-sized chip that automatically measures and records basal body temperature every few minutes. A hand-held device is then used to read out the temperature data collected via wireless transmission and analyse it. This analysis is used to predict the time of ovulation based on 24-hour time measurement, in order to aid couples trying to conceive.
In 2010, data on the first 200 couples using DuoFertility was released demonstrating a pregnancy rate after 6 months of use similar to that of a cycle of IVF for couples with a history of unexplained infertility or mild-to-moderate male or female factors.{{Cite web |url=http://www.duofertility.com/duofertility-vs-ivf |title=DuoFertility - as effective as IVF after 6 months of use | DuoFertility |access-date=2011-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710160203/http://www.duofertility.com/duofertility-vs-ivf |archive-date=2011-07-10 |url-status=dead}}Better than IVF? Pregnancy rates of the DuoFertility programme over six cycles of use. Chausiaux et al. Proceedings of the 13th world congress on controversies in obstetrics, gynaecology and Infertility. C529, p. 319-324
References
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External links
- [http://www.temperatureconcepts.com Cambridge Temperature Concepts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607065323/http://www.temperatureconcepts.com/ |date=7 June 2008 }}
- [http://www.duofertility.com DuoFertility]
- [http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2008035151 WIPO Patent WO/2008/035151] [http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2010023255 WIPO Patent WO/2010/023255]
Category:Companies based in Cambridge
Category:British companies established in 2005
Category:Technology companies established in 2005