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…
Three key considerations and solutions related to the challenges of manufacturing at scale; but the Golden Rule here is design for manufacturability from day one.
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Fact: Atlanta enjoys assets critical to medtech innovation on par with those in hubs like Boston and the Bay Area. In abundance Atlanta has clinicians, hospitals, patients, universities including two medical schools, engineers, entrepreneurs, solutions providers and supporting state and municipal resources. We are also home for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. …
Medtech and life science innovation is intensely rigorous. It requires high levels of acumen and proficiency in multiple disciplines. It can also be immensely capital intensive. Tiffany Wilson founded Atlanta’s Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) in 2012 to help medtech innovators de-risk their technologies, increasing their odds of successful commercialization and positive patient…
New medical technologies for pediatric care face difficult hurdles to commercialization, especially industry investment, due to relatively small market size and the quickly shifting nature of pediatric anatomy. In many cases, compassionate or “expanded use” regulatory pathways are needed to make new technologies available for clinical use in pediatric patients. In December, GCMI Research…
If you’ve been following our funding series for innovators seeking to spin out new medical technologies from higher ed “environments” like Georgia Tech, you’ll have seen: The Top 5 Medtech and Life Science Funding Resources for GT Faculty, Researchers and Investigators – at Phase Zero, THE Place to Start, and Follow-On, for University Sourced…