Thank you to everyone who was able to join Team NEMIC and Veranex for The Med Tech Meetup on August 3rd! We were thrilled to see so many familiar faces and many new ones.

It was a night packed with tasty drinks from the Blu Violet Roof Bar, catching up with old friends, and making new connections, all with the stunning Providence skyline as a backdrop.

Providence, RI – May 5th, 2021 – Lenoss Medical, a biomedical start up focused on physiological repair of osteoporotic spinal fractures has raised $1.3 million in a seed funding round from Cherrystone Angel Group, Slater Technology Fund, Walnut Ventures, Beacon Angels, River Valley Investors, Magpie Neurosurgical Innovation Fund and Mr. Hansjoerg Wyss.

Congratulations to a NEMIC Fellow, Lura Health on being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Phase I SBIR grant for $256,000. This grant will support the development of their current intra-oral salivary pH monitor and help them progress towards the ultimate vision of creating a comprehensive personal health management system, using saliva as a diagnostic medium.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.: Building on a decade of successful collaborations, Brown University and Lifespan, Rhode Island’s largest health system, announce the launch of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health. The Center for Digital Health’s mission is to utilize the best of technology to seamlessly maximize health and eliminate health disparities for both individual patients and larger populations, extending from the local to global communities.

After working for a large company for more than a decade, Dom Messerli was on his own for the first time in 2016.

He’d just launched a medical-technology startup out of his Bristol home specializing in spinal implants. A lot of work remained between the implant concept and the market, including clearing regulatory hurdles, and Messerli felt isolated.

“I was struggling, because I didn’t know anyone in the field,” he said. “I felt like I was this lonely guy in the medtech industry, and I just didn’t feel that there was anyone … who was doing the same thing.”

FRESH ideas are at the core of the medical-technology industry, but as Aidan Petrie saw during his tenure as chief innovation officer at Providence-based Ximedica LLC, even the most dazzling concepts are dependent on knowing how to navigate a highly regulated field. Education can mean the difference between an idea that never takes off and…

The United States’ current healthcare system is in crisis. We spend the most money on healthcare-related expenses of any country. 27 million American citizens either pay out of pocket or have to refuse care because they lack healthcare insurance coverage. There is a disconnect in communication and information sharing across the entire system complicating care for patients and causing physician burnout. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

Our Managing Partners, Aidan Petrie and Lydia Shin Schroter linked up in 2017 when they found that their backgrounds and specialties in the Med Tech field fit like puzzle pieces.

September’s event of the Women’s Health + Entrepreneurship Series is all about fertility. Conceiving, infertility, the costs, the coverage, STRESS…

Join us as we feature two speakers who have both founded local companies that lower the stress of conceiving by supporting women and couples during that time.

Getting the right information, to the right people, at the right time.

Join Tom Chiginsky, a 25-year veteran in designing and enabling complex digital workflows and media experiences, as he explains why Ambient Computing and voice design plays a critical role in the success of the current industrial revolution and how it will ultimately play a role in innovating the current healthcare system. Tom will also give insight to how to design in the multi-modal Ambient Computing space.

Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Roberta Powell’s startup Quantitative 2 Qualitative Health (Q2Q) has been accepted into the 2019 MassChallengeRI cohort. The cohort, made up of 25 early-stage startups, was chosen from over 250 applications from 25 states and 39 countries around the world. Q2Q uses a customer facing application to convert health data into simple diagrams to empower its users to make better health decisions.

We wrapped up our day of showing West Coast investment group RedCrow around Providence, RISD, and Ximedica with an informal pitch presentation at our Innovation Center showcasing 7 NEMIC Community startups.

We can count on Bisnow to shine a light on great things happening in Rhode Island. Last year, the group’s “New England Presents” series included a panel called “Investing in Rhode Island.” This year, Bisnow hosted “Providence State of the Market,” which brought together an incredible mix of representatives from the public and private sectors for two panels that talked about many aspects of Rhode Island’s economic turnaround.

Oct 26th, 2018: Come join us for a free workshop where NEMIC Co-founder Aidan Petrie will talk about the importance of innovation to the industry as a whole, different technologies that are driving innovation, human centered design, and cover the components that make innovation fundable from an investors perspective.

Presented in partnership with Advance CTR.

By Alex Lash - Septemebr 19th, 2018

Xconomy Boston — [Updated 9/19/18, 3:40 p.m. See below.]Rhode Island, and especially its capital city, have many pieces in place to help a tech-savvy cluster take off: a revitalized downtown with exquisite architecture, thriving food and arts scenes, and a welter of academic centers, including the top-notch Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and the University of Rhode Island. The centerpiece is a swath of reclaimed downtown land where a freeway once ran, now dedicated to health organizations and innovation.