MediSieve Welcomes Fiachra Robinson as Product Development Engineer
Fiachra joins MediSieve with a background in mechanical design and medical device development. He holds a first-class honours MEng in Materials Science and Engineering from University College Dublin. Prior to joining the company, he worked as a Mechanical Design Engineer at Palliare in Galway, developing electromechanical devices to support minimally invasive surgery.
At MediSieve, Fiachra will support the design, development and testing of the company’s Magnetic Blood Filtration system as it progresses through the next stages of technical and clinical development.
His experience in mechanical engineering and medical device design strengthens MediSieve’s engineering capability as the company continues to optimise its extracorporeal platform for multiple therapeutic applications.
About MediSieve
MediSieve is a London-based start-up developing Magnetic Blood Filtration, a platform designed to selectively remove clinically relevant targets from the bloodstream. The technology combines target-specific therapeutic Magnetic Beads with an extracorporeal Capture System. During treatment, the Magnetic Beads are introduced into the extracorporeal blood circuit, where they mix with the patient’s blood and bind to their targets. The Capture System then magnetically removes the Beads and bound targets before the blood is returned to the patient.
MediSieve’s lead application is focused on depleting anti-AAV neutralising antibodies (NAbs), which can exclude patients from receiving life-changing AAV gene therapy and prevent redosing. By removing anti-AAV NAbs prior to AAV administration, MediSieve aims to expand patient eligibility and create a potential pathway to future redosing.
Beyond AAV gene therapy, Magnetic Blood Filtration is being developed as a broader platform that can be adapted to remove other clinically relevant circulating targets, either as a direct therapeutic approach or to enable other treatments. MediSieve is a spin-out from University College London and develops its technology in the White City Innovation District in West London.
