Aaryan

Panchal

EpiSafe — an epinephrine auto-injector that mounts to the back of a phone

Mechanical engineer & founder of EpiSafe — epinephrine that lives in your phone case.

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Selected Work · 01

The thing I've built
that had to be real.

Fig. 01 — EpiSafe device

Founder & Product Lead · 2024 – Present

EpiSafe

An epinephrine auto-injector thin enough to live in your phone case — built for the 56% of people prescribed an EpiPen who don't carry one. I lead the mechanism design, the customer discovery, and the regulatory groundwork.

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From idea to working concept
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Thin · 0.3 mg dose
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Auto-injector market
Mechanism DesignCAD / CFDPatent Pending510(k) Pathway

See how it's built

Inside the build · 02

Discovery first.
CAD second.

The internal injector was redesigned from scratch to fit a phone-case envelope — spring force, fluid path, and needle deployment all reworked. CAD is complete and CFD simulations are validating dose equivalence against a predicate auto-injector.

Provisional patents are filed on both the mechanism and the form factor, with a companion iOS app already shipped to TestFlight for closed beta.

Utility provisionalDesign provisionaliOS · Bluetooth LEBench testing

Read the full case study

Fig. 02 — Prototype EpiSafe working prototype — the internal injector mechanism on the bench
The EpiSafe team accepting recognition at WPI Demo Day 2025

Validated in the room · 03

Not just a deck.

2025
WIRE Group Award · Incubation Stage$500 funding, selected out of WPI's i3 Lab
2026
Accepted into GISAGoat Impact Summer Accelerator · WPI's student startup accelerator
2025
Provisional Patent FiledMechanism & form factor

Leadership · WPI Student Government

And running the voice
of student government.

Fig. 03 — SGA campaign work A WPI SGA Club of the Week campaign poster designed by Aaryan

Co-Marketing Chair · SGA · 2024 – Present

WPI Student Gov

As External Marketing Chair, I run the public voice of WPI's Student Government — Instagram, TikTok, and the website. Elections, Senate recaps, Financial Fridays, Club of the Week, and every external club's promo request comes through marketing.

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Channels — IG, TikTok, web
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Top post reach · Meet & Greet
Weekly
Club of the Week cadence
Brand & SocialContent DesignCampus CommsExternal Relations
WPI SGA campaign poster
Financial Fridays
Aaryan Panchal
Co-Marketing Chair
Aaryan running game-day media at WPI Athletics
Game day · WPI

About · 04

I'm more interested in the question behind the question.

When we started EpiSafe, the obvious question was "how do we make a smaller auto-injector?" The better one was: why do more than half of people prescribed epinephrine leave it at home?

That second question is what I engineer toward. I'm studying Mechanical Engineering at WPI — stress, materials, thermodynamics — and spending the rest of my time running customer-discovery interviews, reading FDA guidance, and turning messy human needs into hardware people will actually carry.

I work best at the seam between the bench and the boardroom: close enough to the CAD to know what's possible, close enough to the patient to know what matters, and close enough to the regulation to know what it'll take to ship.

CurrentlyFounder, EpiSafe · ME @ WPI
Based inWorcester, MA
Team5 engineers & operators
Focused onMedical devices, product, leadership
Ask me aboutDesigning around regulation
Emailaaryanpanchal@icloud.com
Working on the EpiSafe prototype in the WPI lab
In the lab · WPI
The EpiSafe team with WPI's Gompei the Goat at Demo Day 2025
The EpiSafe team

Let's talk · 05

Building something hard?

Founder, recruiter, researcher, or just curious about the device — my inbox is open.

aaryanpanchal@icloud.com
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