Reducing the 90% Recurrence Rate for Glioblastoma Treatment Through an Implantable Device for the Delivery of Stem Cells

GCMI’s Spring 2023 Capstone Spotlight on Team LifeSTEM “Gliomas are brain tumors that come in multiple forms ranging from low-grade, benign tumors to high-grade, malignant tumors including glioblastomas. Glioblastoma treatment involves surgical resection, chemotherapy, and radiation. However, these tumors are typically incompletely resected, so there is a 90% recurrence rate [for a course of treatment,…

When ROI Gets Squeezed By Market Size, Process In Medtech Innovation Means Even More

Revolutionizing Pediatrics: Innovations in Medical Device Design & Development. A Pediatric Tech Talk Webinar with GCMI, June 21, 2023 – 12:00 p.m. Eastern   “Innovation in pediatric technologies that address unmet clinical needs lags behind innovation for adult populations in large part due to its relatively small market size and ROI (return on investment) prospects…

Taking a Bite Out of a 9.5% ORIF Re-Operation Rate

“X-rays supporting our testing at GCMI and T3 Labs clearly showed where the device engaged and the tip aligned at the bone level. This kind of evidence is important for our design history file, something that should make our regulatory journey and overall commercialization pathway more efficient.”

Center for Medtech Excellence Shares 2023, 2024 Cohort Dates

Medtech startups or established businesses looking to scale are encouraged to apply for one of the upcoming 16-week accelerator cohorts at the Center for MedTech Excellence. Launched in September 2022, the Center for Medtech Excellence catalyzes the development and commercialization of breakthrough biotechnology, medical devices, life science and therapeutic innovations. Primary areas of focus include…

Moving Beyond Improvisation. Solving a High Volume, High Value Unmet Clinical Need to Advance Patient Care

A “Catheter Gripping Tool” solving an unmet need as GCMI’s grows its roster of collaborative medtech innovations with the Children’s Mercy Kansas City Center for Pediatric Innovation.   Human beings are generally good at improvisation. Assembly calls for a 10mm socket? Try this handy crescent wrench right here and maybe it will do. What happened…

GCMI CEO Sherry Farrugia Named 2023 Recipient of the Center for Global Health Innovation’s Highest Honor, the Industry Growth Award.

The Center for Global Health Innovation (CGHI) recently announced the winners of its 2023 Golden Helix Awards. Congratulations to GCMI’s CEO, Sherry Farrugia, recipient of the 2023 Industry Growth Awards for her impact on the life sciences industry in the state. The Industry Growth Awards are the highest honors bestowed each year by CGHI.  …

Ortho Innovators: Advance Your Technology, at Any Phase in Its Pathway, by Connecting with GCMI at ORS 2023

If you’re attending ORS 2023 and have a new orthopedic technology in development, including preclinical work that may be on your product development horizon, you have a wonderful chance to connect with our Director of Scientific Affairs Evan Goldberg onsite.   GCMI is the U.S. proving ground for global medical innovation. Our mission is to…

Aligned Career Opportunity: Project Manager to Advance Research and Education in Neuroscience.

Our colleague Chris Rozell, Professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair,Technical Interest Groups: Bioengineering, Digital Signal Processing at Georgia Tech asked us to share the following career opportunity advancing research and education in neuroscience. We hope this initiative and position will have the opportunity to work closely with GCMI in the future. From Chris: Georgia Tech…

Come work with our industry leading medtech innovation design and development team – Seeking a senior research engineer to join the GCMI team

GCMI, a non-profit affiliate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, is actively recruiting for a research engineer to lead multiple new medtech product development projects.   The medical device design services and product development team at GCMI facilitates medical product development through all phases – from initial concept generation through transfer to production manufacturing. We…