Hyperfine, Inc. Collaborates with King’s College London to Demonstrate the Swoop System and UNITY Project to The Princess Royal

Hyperfine, Inc. (Nasdaq: HYPR), the developer of the first FDA-cleared portable magnetic resonance (MR) brain imaging system—the Swoop system, today announced an exclusive demonstration of the Swoop system and UNITY (Ultra low-field Neuroimaging In The Young) project to The Princess Royal at the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, King’s College London.

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The Princess Royal watches a demonstration of the Swoop system (Photo: Business Wire)

Her Royal Highness (HRH) met researchers and collaborators from King’s College London and Maria Sainz, president and CEO of Hyperfine, Inc., to learn about the deployment of noninvasive, accessible Hyperfine portable MR brain imaging systems to sub-Saharan African and South Asian countries as a key element of the UNITY project led by King’s College London. Her Royal Highness was shown a demonstration of the Swoop system to see first-hand the device’s ease of use. She spoke to researchers and clinicians who currently use the device in different clinical settings, including settings beyond the confines of a typical radiology department.

“It is a great pleasure for us to introduce HRH Princess Royal to the UNITY project. We hope that these portable MRI scanners will revolutionize neuroscience, providing global access to brain imaging,” said Professor Steve Williams, Head of the Centre and Professor of Imaging Sciences at King's College London. “This collaborative project has a common goal—to improve the quality of life for mothers and their children across the world.”

The UNITY project is an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which allows leading researchers to study environmental factors affecting early brain development, focusing on neurodevelopment patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The project is led by Professor Steve Williams, who oversees 25 portable MRI systems distributed across fifteen countries to assess brain health and development in infants and young children.

“Since 2021, the Hyperfine, Inc. collaboration with King’s College London has further enabled our vision of making brain MRI accessible anywhere in the world to become a reality at UNITY project sites,” said Ms. Sainz. “The collaboration with global luminaries in the field of MR has augmented our portable brain MRI technology and, most importantly, has given us the incredibly rewarding experience of helping hundreds of children, their families, and clinicians in low- and medium-resource settings.”