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…

GCMI Medical Director Emily Blum, MD, to Receive Georgia Bio 2024 Golden Helix Award

Earlier this month, Georgia Bio announced the winners of its 2024 Golden Helix Awards. The GCMI team proudly shares that our own Emily Blum, MD, pediatric urologist and GCMI Medical Director will be presented a 2024 Golden Helix Community Award at the Georgia Life Sciences Summit in October.   The Community Award is presented “to…

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…