Personalized Epilepsy Care
Bringing fulfilling lives to
people with epilepsy around the world through
optimal treatment and support
Omics analysis including the genome, combined with AI-driven personalized care, lets us meet each patient where they are. perple is opening up a new form of epilepsy care.
What is perple
perple is a project led by graduate students at Tohoku University, working to make "personalized epilepsy care" a reality. Every day we work to bring the university's most advanced research into practical use.
We post what we are working on every day. Follows are very welcome!
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Purpose
Enable fulfilling lives for people with epilepsy around the world through optimal treatment and support.
Mission
Deliver omics analysis to 500,000 people with epilepsy within the 2030s.
Our Five Values
Patient-centered giver
Put patients first and deliver the greatest possible value to patients, their families, healthcare professionals and society.
Sincere attitude
Take responsibility for our actions and stay honest with medicine and with society.
Market-creating innovation
Open up new markets and create innovation that changes the world.
Scientific curiosity
Trust the power of science, delight in exploring the unknown, and generate new knowledge.
Synergetic diversity
Respect diverse individuality, resonate with one another and raise each other up.
News
perple gave poster and pitch presentations at BioJapan 2026, held at PACIFICO Yokohama
2026-10-08
perple won an Excellent Poster Award at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Japan Epilepsy Society in Niigata
2026-10-03
perple won the COSTA Award at DATERISE! 2026, a global startup conference hosted by the City of Sendai
2026-09-05
perple was selected for STEP for ENTRY 2026, an overseas expansion program for startups from Sendai and Tohoku
2026-08-17
An interview with perple was published as a MedTech Angels Season 4 alumnus
2026-06-22
perple won the Grand Prize at the AMED MedTech ROUND final pitch
2026-05-28
perple was selected for AMED's FY2026 Next-Generation HealthTech Startup Development Support Program
2026-05-18
perple was selected for MedTech Round, an AMED accelerator program
2026-3-20
perple was selected for INDEE Capital's DEEPTECH FOCUS
2026-02-10
perple presented at MASP DEMO DAY on February 5, 2026
2026-02-05
Excellence Award at the FY2025 Tohoku University School of Medicine Student Scholarship Awards
2026-01-15
perple spoke at the FY2025 Tohoku University Fund Appreciation Gathering
2025-12-06
perple joined a training program in Taiwan to explore expansion there
2025-11-17
Two awards at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Japan Epilepsy Society
2025-10-04
perple exhibited at DATERISE, a startup event in Sendai
2025-08-23
perple won an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award at the 15th Summer Retreat of the East Japan Physician-Scientist Training Consortium
2025-08-20
perple's challenge was featured in Igaku-Kai Shinbun (The Medical Journal)
2025-08-12
U.S. training report: joining a UC Berkeley program and visiting Stanford Biodesign
2025-08-09
perple published a paper on our crowdfunding initiative
2025-08-01
perple was selected for Michinoku GAP Fund STEP2
2025-06-04
perple won special awards at MedTech Angels Season 4, an accelerator for medical device startups!
2025-05-28
perple published a study on the usefulness of polygenic risk scores for predicting epilepsy onset
2025-05-04
Award at the 15th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress (AOEC)
2025-03-27
perple won the Grand Prize at the MiTOHOKU Program of METI's AKATSUKI Project
2025-01-26
perple was selected for MedTech Angels Season 4, an accelerator for medical device startups
2024-12-05
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[Thank you] We reached our crowdfunding goal
2024-12-03
perple joined a training program in Singapore for MASP-selected projects
2024-10-28
perple was selected for the MiTOHOKU Program of METI's AKATSUKI Project
2024-08-01
perple was selected for the special track of Michinoku GAP Fund STEP1
2024-05-06
perple won second place at Miyagi Innovation Base
2024-03-28
perple was selected for and took part in the Deep Tech Designer Program
2024-02-16
perple won the Grand Prize at the Tohoku University Business Idea Contest 2023
2023-12-16