Our Story
About Us​
​NeedleAID began when Founders Jamie and Ina realized they shared the experience of an accidental needlestick injury. Like the rest of our colleagues, we struggled with the limitations of needlestick injury prevention options. Instead of tolerating, we set out to create a tool to fix this problem. Through dedication and innovation, we’ve created a guide that allows single-handed syringe needle uncapping and capping – built to eliminate needlestick injuries. From there we have expanded our portfolio to venture into sustainability as well as modernizing sharps waste management.
Our Start
Founder and CEO Jamie Magrill was a student researching working in a laboratory when he experienced his first needle stick injury. When he looked for alternatives, he learned that there was nothing suitable for him to prevent his injury from happening again. So he wanted to do something about it. Jamie met Founder and COO Ina, who had the exact same experience in a healthcare setting, but also had no alternative, and Anna, Founder and CSO, who was working as a licensed hospital pharmacist and also saw the potential benefits of this product in not only research and veterinary environments, but also healthcare and pharmacy settings. After realizing just how widespread, problematic, and persistent needlestick injuries were, they put their brains together to create a solution.
Problem
Needlesticks are one of the most serious occupational hazards for healthcare and veterinary workers and one of the top causes of disease transmission for researchers. But in healthcare, research, and veterinary workplaces, a needlestick injury is often an afterthought. Few who do not work with syringe needles understand it, and those who do run into the same three major issues:
Often Overlooked - Just one wrong needlestick injury at the wrong time can change your life forever, but attempts at intervention comes only when it is too late - after an injury has occurred.
Incompatible Interventions - needlesticks are treated as an umbrella issue and those who use syringe needles are presented with umbrella solutions that are often incompatible with needs and requirements of diverse workplace procedures.
Expensive – needlestick injuries result in loss of work, loss of contaminated materials, avoidable healthcare costs, and has been shown to have a lasting personal impact.
Solution
We created an assistive device, NeedleAID Safe, to allow for single-handed uncapping and recapping of syringe needles, completely eliminating capping and uncapping related needlestick injuries which account for up to half of needlestick accidents.
But we didn’t stop there. Inspired by sustainability initiatives in our own research laboratories, we also built a simple pipeline to collect and recycle single-use plastics from syringe needle caps, opening doors for single-waste plastics to be diverted from landfills.
Additionally, we were able to help our customers reduce sharps container usage, helping to save costs on sharps container pick-up and submissions as well as reduce significantly reduce excess plastic waste generated from frequently replacing sharps containers.
This resulted in expanding our accident prevention and workflow efficiency efforts by creating a system to address one of the most dangerous yet commonly encountered problem: overfilled and unchanged full sharps containers. Our system was able to increase the efficiency of sharps container collection by tenfold and save hospital networks hundreds of thousands of dollars in sharps container pickup fees. We quickly realized modernizing sharps waste management was the answer to reducing accidents, and excess single-use waste, while enhancing efficiency and cost savings at the same time.
Commitment to Excellence
We are committed to providing innovative solutions that enhance sharps safety, reduce accidents, divert single-use waste from landfills, and help save costs on sharps waste management.
Our team has more than 5 years of experience innovating in the needle-safety and sharps-waste space. Jamie and Ina have won multiple accolades in accelerators and competitions around the world with NeedleAID’s suite of tools and services.
Our Clients
We are proud to be the safe needle preparation system of choice for a wide variety of hospitals, clinics, facilities, organizations and users around the world. Here are some of the clients we partner with to protect their workers:
Our Partners and Supporters
We are grateful to our partners and supporters for their generous help along our journey. Here are some groups we work with to make NeedleAID a reality:
