The CIMIT Student Prize for Primary Healthcare is a national competition open to graduate and undergraduate engineering students from accredited engineering programs. Top three student prizes awarded: $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000.
A recently formed Boston-based start up called HanGenix is the first company to be spun out of the new CIMIT Accelerator program. HanGenix is focused on reducing hospital acquired infections (HAI) by installing comprehensive hand hygiene solutions that remind clinicians to perform proper hand hygiene and document their compliance. The CIMIT Accelerator program facilitates technological innovations that can be handed off to industry within twelve to eighteen months.
Projects targeting cardiac arrhythmias, brain injuries, spinal cord injury, and innovations in healthcare delivery systems will be awarded up to $100,000 each in CIMIT Innovation Grants during 2011. Earlier this year, CIMIT announced the selection of 30 projects to receive funding and facilitation awards. In all, nearly $4 million will be distributed through this grant program in the upcoming year.
CIMIT announced plans to award $400,000 in 2011 prizes as part of its national engineering competition. The CIMIT Prize in Primary Healthcare seeks to encourage graduate and undergraduate engineering students nationwide to develop creative technological solutions that could enhance the delivery of care at the frontlines of medicine.
The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT®) and Induct Software™ AS (Induct), “The Open Innovation Company™,” today announced a long-term strategic alliance under which they will work together to implement a Web-based innovation management system based upon the successful CIMIT Model. The collaboration will draw on the strengths of each organization to develop Web-based tools that support the accelerated implementation of leading-edge ideas, clinical systems and medical devices through multidisciplinary teams of innovators.
Mark R. Hartman, a Cornell University PhD candidate in Biological and Environmental Engineering will lead the team chosen to receive the $150,000 top honor in the 2010 CIMIT Prize in Primary Healthcare competition. His team’s project seeks to apply novel DNA-based “fluorescence nanobarcodes” as a platform technology for multiplexed rapid clinical diagnoses in primary care. Second place and $100,000 is awarded to another Cornell-based, student-led team. Third place and $50,000 goes to a team at the MIT Media Lab.
A wide variety of early-stage, healthcare technology innovation projects in NeuroHealth, Traumatic Stress Disorders, and integrated clinical environments were among those chosen to receive more than $3 million in CIMIT seed grants for FY11.
CIMIT and A*STAR have announced the formation of a strategic alliance between the two organizations, a relationship that will open new doors of opportunity for collaboration between CIMIT consortium researchers and clinician, engineering and technology colleagues in Singapore.
CIMIT will convene its annual Innovation Congress Oct. 27-28 in Boston, with top keynote speakers, in-depth discussions about cutting-edge medical issues and close to 60 demonstrations of innovative medical devices and clinical systems in the CIMIT Exploratorium.
Two keynote speakers have been confirmed for the CIMIT Innovation Congress 2009 conference -- Susan Axelrod, President, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) and Mike Harsh, Chief Technology Officer, GE Healthcare. The CIMIT Innovation Congress, held each autumn, is the only conference where preeminent trailblazers of medical device technology join with national healthcare leaders to explore new ideas and build coalitions that facilitate solutions to our most critical healthcare problems
CIMIT Prize competition recognizes student research using novel technologies to address major diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in primary healthcare. Boston, MA - CIMIT has announced the winners of the first CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare. This new nation-wide annual competition is designed to encourage graduate and undergraduate engineering students to develop creative technological solutions that have potential to enhance the delivery of care at the frontlines of medicine. Each year for the next 5 years, CIMIT will provide $400,000 in prizes to the best of projects. The 2009 CIMIT Prizes have been awarded to student teams at four universities: University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University; MIT and Princeton. The four winning projects were selected from the ten finalists chosen last February from a field of 78 proposals.
CIMIT will host a Summer Education Series in July. "Frontiers of Inhalation Technologies in Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Medicine" is sponsored by the CIMIT Inhalation Technology Program and explores innovations within this emerging field. The four-week program begins Tuesday, July 7, from 4 to 6 PM at the MIT McGovern Center, and continues each Tuesday at 4 PM.
CIMIT has announced that it will commit over $4 million to 27 medical research teams for FY10. The grants will go to multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary teams that are developing innovative early-stage medical devices or clinical systems. This year there was a record 255 applications for funding, reflecting the many rich ideas throughout the CIMIT research community.
CIMIT has announced its program for the 2009 Innovation Congress - "Accelerating Healthcare Solutions through Technology." The event will be held Oct. 27-28 at the Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St., Boston.
CIMIT announces 10 finalists for the first CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare. Each team will get $10,000 to develop its idea in preparation for the final judging. Responses came from 78 teams at 44 universities in 21 states. Three top winners will be announced in June, with prizes of $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000, respectively.
CIMIT has announced leaders and outlined goals of its new Inhalation Technology Program, the goal of which is to become the world's leading resource in the treatment of serious respiratory conditions. The Boston-based initiative was made possible by a $1.5 million gift from France's Air Liquide.
CIMIT is hosting an engineering competition focused on encouraging breakthroughs in technology relating to primary healthcare. Closing date for letters of intent is Jan. 15. This national competition is open to graduate and undergraduate engineering students from accredited engineering programs. Top prizes are $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000. Up to 10 finalists will get $10,000 each.
Dr. Steven Schachter, a clinician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, and leader of the Neurotechnology Program at CIMIT, has been elected president of the American Epilepsy Society. Dr. Schachter is also a CIMIT site miner at BIDMC.
CIMIT, a consortium of Boston-area universities, medical centers and engineering schools, is hosting an engineering competition to encourage innovation in an oft-overlooked field: primary care. The contest is open to graduate and undergraduate students of accredited engineering programs. Top prize is $150,000; up to 10 finalists will receive $10,000 each.
CIMIT's annual Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation has been given to a team that is developing an imaging system to limit the spread and/or recurrence of cancer. Team leaders represent three Boston-area institutions: Boston University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
CIMIT is staging its annual Innovation Congress Oct. 28-29 in Boston, offering top keynote speakers, focus sessions about cutting-edge medical devices and an Exploratorium of almost 80 novel tools - all created with the goal of providing better healthcare to patients more quickly.
CIMIT, a consortium of a dozen top-tier academic institutions, medical centers and non-profit organizations in Boston, announces it has received a $1.5 million gift from Air Liquide, the French developer of oxygen units, breath-assistance devices and tools relating to respiratory care, pulmonary medicine, anesthesia and surgery. CIMIT will set up an inhalation therapy program, and will be engaged in helping Air Liquide identify promising innovative ideas and appropriate partners.
CIMIT announces that the VA (Boston) has joined the consortium as its 12th member. The Veterans Administration is a pioneer and national leader in the keeping and use of electronic medical records. Medical researchers throughout the CIMIT organization stand to benefit through use of this broad database, while VA doctors and clinicians will have access to many of CIMIT's assets.
Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of the NIH, will keynote the CIMIT Innovation Congress 2008 Oct. 28-29 in Boston. Also speaking will be Dr. James Peake, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Maj. Gen. George Weightman of the U.S. Army; Dr. Stephen Oesterle of Medtronic Inc.; and Thomas Miller of Siemens Healthcare. New medical devices and clinical systems will be exhibited before 500 national attendees.
CIMIT, the Boston-based consortium promoting innovation in medical devices and clinical systems, announces the winners of six Young Clinician Research grants worth $50,000 each. The program is supported by Johnson & Johnson's Corporate Office of Science and Technology. The awards will permit these doctors to continue their research while staying active in the clinic.
Dr. Colleen Kigin, chief of staff of CIMIT, the Boston-based medical-research consortium, was elected a 2008 Catherine Worthington Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association. There are just 110 Fellows of the organization. She is former director of physical therapy services at Massachusetts General Hospital.
NIH Director Elias Zerhouni and Lt. Gen. James Peake (ret.), Secretary of Veterans Affairs, will be among the speakers at the CIMIT Innovation Congress 2008 in Boston Oct. 28-29. Top medical researchers from around the country will be exchanging information and making new contacts at the event, whose theme is "Forging Partnerships in Healthcare: Academia, Government and Industry."
Ronald Newbower, PhD, chief technology officer and a co-founder of Boston-based CIMIT, has been named winner of the 2008 AAMI/Becton Dickinson Career Achievement Award given by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, the leading professional organization in its field.
CIMIT announces $5M in medical awards to researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospitial, Harvard Medical School, MIT, Boston University, Boston Medical Center, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
CIMIT, the Boston-based Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, has its first affiliate. The associating group is a new organization known as MIMIT, Manchester: Integrating Medicine and Innovative Technology. The two non-profit consortiums will join forces in helping to develop innovative medical technology that benefits patients.
CIMIT, a non-profit consortium of medical institutions and engineering schools in Boston, announces a $2.1M grant to a research team pioneering a new minimally invasive surgical procedure known as NOTES (Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery). The Boston team is part of a national effort involving surgery in the GI tract by going through mouth, vagina or anus rather than skin and muscle.
CIMIT, a Boston-based consortium of teaching hospitals and engineering schools, has announced the winner of its Edward M. Kennedy Award for HealthCare Innovation. It went to the Medical Device PnP Program led by Dr. Julian M. Goldman at Massachusetts General Hospital. Its goal: To link medical devices and electronic systems in medical centers to reduce errors.
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