UCL startup Nodanni: saving lives one necklace at a time | Innovation & Enterprise - UCL – University College London

Startup Nodanni LTD, supported by UCL, has developed Vactraca, a necklace that’s helping to save children from vaccine-preventable diseases. 28 April 2025 Hundreds of thousands of children die every year in low-income countries simply because they haven’t had the right vaccines. This is often caused by paper records being lost or defaced. UCL startup Nodanni has developed a new solution: a customised necklace that allows mothers to easily keep track of their children’s routine immunisation records. “I was working at UNICEF in Nigeria and we kept seeing children missing life-saving vaccines, and dying from preventable diseases, because they had no digital health records,” explains Nodanni’s founder Victoria Ndoh (2019, MSc in Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaking). Victoria set up her business after finishing her UCL master’s and tapping into entrepreneurship support from UCL Innovation & Enterprise. Nodanni’s wearable vaccination tracker, Vactraca was designed with a team of industrial d

UCL startup Nodanni: saving lives one necklace at a time | Innovation & Enterprise - UCL – University College London UCL startup Nodanni: saving lives one necklace at a time Startup Nodanni LTD, supported by UCL, has developed Vactraca, a necklace that’s helping to save children from vaccine-preventable diseases. 28 April 2025 Hundreds of thousands of children die every year in low-income countries simply because they haven’t had the right vaccines. This is often caused by paper records being lost or defaced. UCL startup Nodanni has developed a new solution: a customised necklace that allows m

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