Citus - Model NIMBLEeva - Aspiration Device

Our goal is to support skin experts and clinicians in diagnosis, monitoring and control of skin conditions. NIMBLEeva offers a fast, pain-free, non-invasive measurement that can be directly performed on the patient and it is easy to use.

• Healthy skin is synonymous with a healthy life, embodying confidence and self-awareness for those in good health, while also providing crucial information for individuals suffering from diseases. The mechanical properties of skin constitute a key indicator of its health state. However, up until now no measure exists to quantify the mechanics of skin health reliably. This leads to inferior patient treatment, unsuccessful drug developments and insufficient and non-personalized skin care procedures.​
• We, at Citus, enable doctors and skin care researchers to solve these challenges by measuring skin health through mechanical characterization. Citus is an ETH-spinoff and part of the Health Innovation Hub of University Hospital of Zürich (USZ).

• Healthy skin shows distinct mechanical properties, determined primarily by the network of collagen fibres established by the embedded cells.​
• The endless cycle of synthesis and degradation of collagen ensures the integrity and full functionality of the tissue. However, aging processes as well as pathological conditions perturb this physiological turnover, leading to impairments of the skin functions, and, potentially, to severe consequences for patient's life.​
• Measuring the mechanical properties of skin on time and accurately hence becomes a turning point for the detection of these tissue changes.