The Intersection of Design, Engineering and Medicine: Why GCMI is the perfect place for research engineer and GT alum Franco Zapata

Interest and excellence in subjects like biology and mathematics can be precursors to pre-med study initiation or investigation, but it is far from all that is required to succeed. There are also frequently superseding areas of interest and excellence that influence one’s academic and career path.   Franco Zapata, medical device and phase zero research…

“This, this success is the desired result”

With GCMI’s Help, Micron’s Microarray Needle Technology Nearer To Forever Changing the World for the Better Medical device and biotech or medtech innovation doesn’t work like consumer electronics or software. It works more like aerospace. Because lives are literally at stake it needs more than a place for people to work, high speed internet, brilliant…

Insights Article: Market Access for Medical Device Manufacturing

Opportunities and implications for ISO 9001 certified entities to access the lucrative medical device market through ISO 13485 certification.   Researchers estimate the total size of the U.S. medical device market somewhere between $170 billion and $240 billion in 2023. KPMG reports, “The medical device industry is poised for steady growth, with global annual sales…

MeetUp & Tour, October 3rd, Unlocking Medical Device Innovation: Industry Trends & Capabilities

Thursday, Oct 3, 2024 Georgia Tech Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility 575 14th Street Northwest Atlanta, GA 30318  5:30 – 7:30 p.m.   Medical device innovation and manufacturing is unique in its rigors, challenges and impact potential. It is easy to squander scarce resources wasting time with too many prototypes instead of verifying and validating the…

GCMI’s 2024 State of Medtech Innovation Report Part 2: Beyond AI and ML, what should lead medtech awareness for 2024 and 2025.

Beyond AI and ML, US / EU regulatory alignment, wearable tech, 3D printing, funding and the supply chain should lead medtech innovators’ awareness for the balance of 2024 and 2025 As we reported in the GCMI news and blog, in early 2024, the FDA issued a final rule amending the device current good manufacturing practice…

Medtech Manufacturing for Innovators & Start Ups: What You Most Need to Know

Insights from a deep dive into medical device innovation and production with GCMI’s Saylan Lukas and GaMEP’s Dean Hettenbach   Given the patient safety requirements codified in the United States Code of Federal Regulations overseen and enforced by the Food and Drug Administration, medical device innovation is a challenging enterprise to say the least.  …

It’s About Time: Hub Hygiene Aims to Obliterate CLABSIs

A materials scientist and six GT students take aim at Civil War technology still ubiquitous in clinical care and its implication in 30,000 deaths every year.   The technology that has become Hub Hygiene’s easySCRUB started as a challenge issued to material scientist Jud Ready, PhD, in 2015 by a friend’s spouse, a North Carolina…