The Med Tech Leadership Program curriculum was designed based on firsthand research and interviews with industry professionals, CEOs, venture capitalists, angel investors, and seasoned Med Tech entrepreneurs. The goal was to provide aspiring entrepreneurs and Med Tech professionals with the complete picture of how to bring a regulated medical device or digital health product to market.

Calling Med Tech and Digital Health Startups!

We are partnering with MagpieX MedTech Ventures, RightHill Ventures, and Rogue Venture Partners to hold a Softball Pitch Night.

The NEMIC Foundation has just wrapped up another program with one of our earliest global partners, ActnerLab. Located in South Korea, ActnerLab is a business incubator and entrepreneurship education hub for Korean hardware startups with the goal of international expansion.

With all that we do here at the NEMIC Foundation, it's sometimes hard to put it all into words. So, we made a video!

Well, not all on our own. We got some help from our talented friends.

When you donate to the Foundation for the New England Medical Innovation Center, you support innovators and entrepreneurs in Med Tech.

Ultimately, we help usher technologies to market so that they achieve their visions; which include advancing the patient and caregiver experience, creating more environmentally sustainable solutions, improving outcomes, mitigating risks, reducing costs, and much more.

When an infant under four weeks of age shows a fever, the standard of care is a spinal tap to rule out Meningitis. This infection is dangerous, and delays in diagnosis can lead to an extended hospital stay or even death. The traditional constraint method consists of physically holding the baby in a 'crunched' position during the spinal tap procedure, which requires several people to keep the baby perfectly still while the tap is administered.

Lenoss Medical has entered the scene to introduce a disruptive new method of vertebral body augmentation. Lenoss Medical is a start-up with an innovative, biological bone implant technology for the treatment of painful spinal fractures. When natural, biological bone implants are used in weak, fractured vertebrae, a regenerative process can occur: new bone building, and repair of the fractured vertebrae may occur.

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.

Registration is now open for our Med Tech Leadership Program. The Med Tech Leadership Program is an educational course for Med Tech innovators, entrepreneurs, industry professionals, clinicians, and anyone interested in learning a holistic view of how to successfully commercialize a regulated medical technology. This program includes topics like, developing regulated devices and technologies, examining current industry trends, protecting a technology, building and leading a business, developing an investable business plan, raising capital, and more.

Congratulations! You are ready to dip your toes into the commercial waters and begin the process of transforming your technology into a product or business. Not so fast. Before you do anything, there are 3 crucial things you need to know about intellectual property and talking about your idea in public realms. Take note: These tips can mean the difference between whether your innovation sinks or swims.

PROVIDENCE, RI, October 22, 2019 – The New England Medical Innovation Center (NEMIC) is excited to announce they have been awarded an Innovation Network Matching Grant from Commerce Rhode Island to grow Rhode Island’s Med Tech ecosystem and support local Med Tech entrepreneurs. The award of $195,000 will support:

• Activation Program

• Expansion into the CIC Providence

• RI Business Competition Collaboration