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Know what’s in the air.
See local pollen, air quality, and environmental conditions alongside the way you feel.
Asthma care, connected
See the patterns between every breath.
MedIQ brings symptoms, medication routines, and environmental context into one clearer picture—today through Polly, and tomorrow through the developing InhalAIR platform.
Polly is available on the App Store. InhalAIR is currently in development.
InhalAIR
In development
Polly
Available now
Built at Rice. Recognized nationally.
Rice University
VentureWell
Lilie
Johns Hopkins
UTSA Draper
Available now
Meet Polly.
Your daily asthma picture.
Asthma rarely fits neatly into a doctor’s appointment. Polly helps you capture what happens between visits and turn daily logs into patterns you can understand.
View on the App Store
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Turn logs into patterns.
Track symptoms and medication adherence, then review trends and reports designed for clearer care conversations.
SymptomsLog what changes
MedicationFollow adherence
EnvironmentSee pollen & AQI
InsightsUnderstand patterns
In development
A smarter layer for the inhaler you already use.
InhalAIR is being developed as a smart attachment for metered-dose inhalers—designed to connect everyday use, technique, and airway-inflammation signals with the context already captured in Polly.
Provisional patent application filed in 2026.
Clip on
Designed around existing metered-dose inhalers and familiar routines.
Capture
Intended to measure patterns in use, technique, and airway inflammation.
Connect
Bring device signals into Polly for a more complete asthma picture.
One system.
Two connected products.
A clearer view of asthma.
The connected picture
From daily moments to useful context.
MedIQ is designed to bring the signals around asthma together—not to replace medical care, but to help make the story between appointments easier to see.
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Log
Capture symptoms and medication routines in Polly.
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Contextualize
Layer in pollen, air quality, and everyday conditions.
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Connect
InhalAIR is intended to add use and biomarker signals.
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Understand
Review patterns and bring clearer context to your care team.
Momentum
Built in the lab.
Proven in the room.
From student research to national competition stages, MedIQ has earned support for a vision of asthma care that is more connected, more personal, and more proactive.
2025
$43K
UTSA Draper Competition
First place and Most Data-Science Driven
Read the story ↗ 2026 $15KLilie Summer Venture Studio
Named to Rice entrepreneurship’s 2026 SVS cohort for student-led ventures
Read the Rice News story ↗
2026
2nd Place, Digital Health Track
Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition · 560+ teams from 300+ universities ↗
Lilie Summer Venture Studio
Rice entrepreneurship’s 2026 cohort · $15K non-dilutive funding ↗
VentureWell E-Team Pioneer ProgramNational venture development program
Provisional patent application filedUSPTO
2025
FinalistBaylor New Venture Competition
Student Project GrantRice Engineering Alumni
2024
SemifinalistNapier Rice Launch Challenge
FinalistJohns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition
PublicationASME DMD Proceedings
Student Project GrantRice Engineering Alumni
The team
Four bioengineers.
One shared mission.
MedIQ was founded by four Rice University bioengineers working across hardware, software, and venture development to make asthma information more useful in everyday life.
Suran Somawardana
Co-founder · CEO
Patrick Bednarz
Co-founder · CTO
Jacob Lei
Co-founder · CFO
Mira Srinivasa
Co-founder · COO
Let’s connect
Help shape what comes next.
We’re building with patients, clinicians, researchers, collaborators, and partners in mind. If that sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you.
mediqhs@gmail.com