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…

Beware the Unfamiliar Approach: Preclinical Implications for Novel Cell & Gene Therapies

Roughly one decade ago, scientists made significant improvements in viral vectors’ ability to deliver genetic therapeutics. Those therapies use genetic material like DNA to manipulate a patients’ own cells. Cellular (cell) therapies transfer cells into the patient whether they are the patients’ own cells or cells derived from another location or donor cells.    Because…

Q&A with an Industry Leader – What’s One Area Especially Ripe for Acceleration in Preclinical Work? Hint: It’s Not the OR.

As we shared recently, our colleagues at Within3 are using technology to accelerate pharma and medtech innovation in some very interesting ways. Their platform improves life science teams’ engagement in asynchronous applications like advisory boards, helps teams find the right KOLs anywhere on the globe and helps teams make the most out of medical congresses…

Aligned in Acceleration: An Introduction to Our Colleagues at Within3, Their Insights Management Platform and Its Potential Implications for Preclinical Testing

Our colleagues at Within3 are using technology to accelerate pharma and medtech innovation in some very interesting ways. Their platform improves life science teams’ engagement with key opinion leaders in asynchronous applications like advisory boards, helps teams find the right KOLs anywhere on the globe and helps teams make the most out of medical congresses…

Preclinical Implications for 3D Printed and Bioresorbable Medical Technologies

The phrase “personalized medicine” has been thrown about by so many for so long in healthcare as to defy definition: or require post graduate work in any one of dozens of specific clinical or technological fields.   For the sake of brevity, 3D printing and bioresorbable material technologies are actively realizing personalized medicine in the…