Bringing Safety to Home Dialysis

Live Longer. Live Better.

Our Mission

Relavo’s mission is to enrich the lives of people with kidney failure by making home dialysis safer and more accessible.

The Problem

Vulnerable Connections Lead to Contamination

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a form of treatment for kidney failure. It allows patients to receive treatment daily from the comfort of their own homes instead of spending 15-20 hours a week in a dialysis clinic. However, PD is under-utilized as a treatment because of the risk of infection.

Peritonitis is an infection of the peritoneal membrane commonly caused by bacteria entering the patient’s body from touch or air contaminations of PD supplies during treatment setup. Microbes from these contamination events are flushed into the patient’s body when dialysis begins. Peritonitis occurs in nearly 30% of patients every year and requires hospitalization in 50% of cases.

But...There are Great Benefits to HOME Dialysis

The Relavo Solution

Our Technology

Relavo is changing the way patients on Home Dialysis (PD) receive treatment. The PeritoneX™ is an in-line connection device that aims to internally disinfect dialysis tubes at all connection sites in the PD system.

Our Team

We are a female-founded team of biomedical engineers from Johns Hopkins University seeking to make home dialysis more accessible by minimizing the risk of infection with our technology, the PeritoneX.

Sarah Lee

Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder

Tejasvi Desai

VP of Product Development
Co-Founder

Anna Bailey

Director of Regulatory, Quality, & Clinical Affairs
Co-Founder

Our Values

Relavo strives to help patients take control of their dialysis treatments with easy-to-use, intuitive devices that foster independence, confidence, and wellness.