An affiliate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) helps verify, validate and accelerate commercialization of new medical technologies that save lives and improve patient care. From our Northyards and 14th Street facilities in midtown Atlanta, we help find the finish line for medtech innovations at any point on the pathway from bench to bedside.

Additionally, GCMI and T3 Labs proudly support BME Capstone teams with our medtech design, development and preclinical testing resources including facilities, staff, materials and know-how.

Principal investigators, faculty and student projects served include: Dr. Andres Garcia, Dr. Scott Hollister, Dr. Omer Inan, the Coulter Foundation, over 20 additional GT faculty members and dozens of BME Capstone teams.

This archive details just how we do that and to what effect.

“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…

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…

Avoiding pitfalls and implementing strategies early for success in medtech manufacturing

A webinar with GCMI and the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership, June 25, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. EDST When – at long last – it comes time to build your new medical device, be that for verification and validation testing, show and tell or educational examples, clinical trials or “full scale,” you will always wish you…

6 Cornerstone Truths for Medtech Innovators (Researchers or Clinicians) in the Hospital Setting

By: Marty Jacobson with Paul Snyder   Because clinicians have such an intimate knowledge of unmet clinical needs, hospitals are fertile ground for medtech innovations that improve value and outcomes. But bringing a technology or device to bear in clinical use, especially at any scale, works in much different, much more rigorous ways and paths…

From Phase Zero to Full on Sales Mode: GCMI Continues to Proudly Support Jackson Medical’s Mission to Eliminate “Never Events” in the OR

Prologue – Eliminating a Surgical Never Event that Should not Exist Surgical instruments that emit high-intensity light coupled with human error are a leading cause of intraoperative fires and patient burns. The healthcare system refers to incidents like these as “never events” so they should never happen, right? But, survey results published in the Joint…

Improving the Human Condition Through Medtech Innovation

GCMI recently welcomed Georgia Tech President Angel Cabrera for an inside look at our work and its impact. Almost immediately after Angel Cabrera was named President of Georgia Tech in 2019, he led “more than 5,700 members of the Georgia Tech community [who] contributed to a new 10-year strategic plan that launched in November 2020.…