Applications are now open for our Digital Health Accelerator, in partnership with the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, is an intensive business accelerator program created to support digital health solutions which have come to the forefront of innovation due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. We are looking for startups who are utilizing technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and digital therapies that are being developed here in Rhode Island.

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.

In 2004, at age 43, Roberta Powell was a successful management consultant with two school-age children. Life was great, or it seemed to be, until Christmas Eve, when Roberta found a lump in her breast which turned out to be breast cancer.