STRONG RESULTS FOR NAO.VNS™ FIRST-IN-HUMAN STUDY
Strong safety, robust device performance, and positive patient outcomes
Synergia Medical revolutionary technology

Synergia Medical aims to advance neuromodulation with optoelectronic technology offering:
Full MRI compatibility – Designed to allow low-restriction MRI scans (100–150M annually worldwide), potentially reducing patient care limitations and burdens. Real-time activity during imaging is intended to enable physicians to adjust therapy while observing brain responses—an approach that may help enhance VNS efficacy.
EMI immunity – Developed to provide protection against widely used medical EMI sources such as electrosurgery (utilized in 80% of surgeries) and defibrillators, with the goal of ensuring greater safety in patient care.
Extended battery life & fast recharging – Engineered to minimize EMI-related power inefficiencies, allowing for a rapid recharge (around 1 minute daily) for an expected long-term battery lifetime of 15 years. This could reduce replacement surgeries and may support energy-intensive stimulation modes potentially enhancing therapy.
Enhanced cybersecurity – Intended to reduce exposure to external and remote hacking through closed-loop optical communication, providing a potentially more secure system.
Synergia’s technology is an investigational device, not approved for commercial use. Any information contained herein is preliminary, based on limited internal data and should not be construed as safety or performance claims. This is not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy.
News and Events
- February 25 2025 SYNERGIA MEDICAL ANNOUNCES STRONG RESULTS FOR NAO.VNS™ FIRST-IN-HUMAN STUDY
- January 13 2025 SYNERGIA MEDICAL ANNOUNCES: FIVE PATIENTS NOW IMPLANTED WITH NAO.VNS™ LEADERSHIP CHANGE: CHARLES NOLET TO SUCCEED ATTILA BORBATH AS CEO
- September 23 2024 SYNERGIA MEDICAL SUCCESSFULLY IMPLANTS FIRST PATIENTS WITH NAO.VNS™
SYNERGIA MEDICAL ANNOUNCES STRONG RESULTS FOR NAO.VNS™ FIRST-IN-HUMAN STUDY
Brussels, February 24, 2025 – Synergia Medical announces that its NAO.VNS™ device, successfully implanted in five patients at UZ Gent and Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc in Belgium, has met the primary safety endpoint in the AURORA first-in-human clinical study. Synergia Medical's technology is a next-generation neuromodulation platform that eliminates the main metal components of traditional devices, ensuring immunity to electromagnetic interference (EMI).
SYNERGIA MEDICAL ANNOUNCES: FIVE PATIENTS NOW IMPLANTED WITH NAO.VNS™ LEADERSHIP CHANGE: CHARLES NOLET TO SUCCEED ATTILA BORBATH AS CEO
Brussels, January 13, 2025. Synergia Medical SA, a leader in developing optoelectronic medical devices, is pleased to announce the successful implantation of its groundbreaking NAO.VNSTM system in three more patients, bringing the total to five, as part of the AURORA study. These First-In-Human implantations took place at Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and UZ Gent, Belgium. All patients have fully recovered, allowing the initiation of stimulation therapy as planned.
SYNERGIA MEDICAL SUCCESSFULLY IMPLANTS FIRST PATIENTS WITH NAO.VNS™
Brussels, 23 September 2024 – Synergia Medical, a leader in the development of optoelectronic medical devices, is pleased to announce the successful implantation of its groundbreaking NAO.VNS system in the first two patients as part of the AURORA study. These first-in-human implantations took place on September 6, 2024, at Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and UZ Gent. Two weeks after surgery, both patients have fully recovered, allowing the initiation of stimulation therapy as planned.