Our Process: Turning Real Patient Problems Into Real Healthcare Products

At LumaCleanCares, we design medical solutions to address real gaps in patient care, identified by the people who experience them firsthand.

Our products start with lived experience. And they’re built through collaboration.

We believe the best healthcare innovations come from patients, caregivers, and clinicians who see what isn’t working and imagine what could be better.

That’s why we’d like to invite you to collaborate with us.

Have an Idea? Here’s How It Works

We get that many have proposed ideas to medical institutions, only to see them created later with no acknowledgment later on.

We don’t want that to happen. We want our collaborators to become our stakeholders and product champions of the cause.

If you’re interested in working with us, here’s a step-by-step snapshot of how the process will work:

1. Share Your Idea and Mutual NDA: It doesn’t have to pertain to a certain medical condition. As long as it addresses a gap in patient care, we want to hear it all. Your idea can be fully developed and highly specific or a simple concept. Regardless, we appreciate your insight. If we move forward, we enter into a mutual non-disclosure agreement to protect both parties.
2. Expert Review: Our team evaluates your idea with clinical advisors, engineers, and industry partners. We assess clinical need, engineering feasibility, and production considerations to determine next steps.
3. Licensing Pathway: If the product reaches market, you’ll receive a licensing agreement with royalties, so you’re recognized and rewarded as a collaborator.
4. Product Development: LumaCleanCares leads prototyping, testing, manufacturing design, and FDA regulatory processes. This phase represents a significant investment of time, materials, and expertise on our part.
5. Market Launch: When all is said and done, we want our idea partners to be co-champions of the new product. Depending on the regulatory and manufacturing complexity, the full process takes anywhere from six to 18 months.

Case in Point: The Patient Becomes the Inventor

One inspiring example of our collaboration is Jasmine Sturr.

Jasmine experienced a feeding tube burn wound caused by bile leakage, a painful and under-addressed issue. With a background in chemistry, she developed a powder to absorb leakage, protect skin, control odor, and simplify removal.

At The Oley Foundation conference in 2023, Jasmine and her father Mel met LumaCleanCares President and medical device engineer Martin von Dyck. Together, they refined the solution—pairing Jasmine’s powder with a custom-designed disc to hold it in place.

The result: StomaEase™ powder and StomaDisc™, now part of a shared patent and developed through true patient/ engineer collaboration.

You can read more about Jasmine’s story on our blog here.

Tell Us Your Idea

Ready to collaborate with our team? We want to hear from you. Simply email our patient advocate, Mauren O’Gara, at maureen.ogara@lumacleancares.com, to start the conversation.

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