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.

Providence, RI, October 28th, 2020 - Two Rhode Island-based startups, Asthenis and Q2Behave, are awarded funding through the New England Medical Innovation Center’s (NEMIC) ACTIVATE Program.

ACTIVATE is a seed funding preparation program supported by Rhode Island Commerce. Through Activate, Rhode Island-based MedTech startups can apply to be awarded professional services valued between $15,000-$37,000 to fill gaps in their business plan in preparation for a successful round of fundraising.

We are hiring! Join our team as a Project Coordinator to support the implementation of our upcoming programs for Med Tech entrepreneurs, innovators, executives, startups, and more!

Welcome to the NEMIC Community, EMERGE Health R.I. and Founder, Brian Morley! Brian is the newest member of our #MedTech and #Coworking Communities.

NEMIC Membership connects you with Southern New England's thriving Med Tech ecosystem and network of professionals supporting the commercialization of the next generation of medical technologies. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3fVeAUu

NEMIC Fellow, ResusciTech, Named a Top 2020 MassChallenge Finalists- Rhode Island.

BostInno names NEMIC Fellow, Daniel Weinstein, Co-Founder and CEO of Lura Health, as one of Boston's 25 under 25.

Lura Health is developing an intra-oral salivary pH monitor that is changing the field of preventative healthcare by effortlessly monitor health through saliva. Lura Health was recently awarded an SBIR NSF grant award of $256,000 to 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.

Marchal Consulting & Jenna Marchal, welcome to the NEMIC Community! Jenna and her consulting company are the newest members of our #MedTech and #Coworking Communities. Learn more about Marchal Consulting here: https://www.marchalconsulting.com/

NEMIC Membership connects you with Southern New England's thriving Med Tech ecosystem and network of professionals supporting the commercialization of the next generation of medical technologies. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3fVeAUu

Are you a part of Rhode Island's #MedTech Ecosystem? Are you an institution, #nonprofit, #startup, #designfirm, #researchgroup, #serviceprovider, or just a general Med Tech enthusiast?

Register to showcase your company, products, or services, at the virtual Med Tech "Science Fair" where you can network and meet global entrepreneurs, partners, and investors, part of Access RI Med Tech, a showcase of Rhode Island's Med Tech ecosystem.

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 this video, hear from Jonghwan Lee, PhD, an assistant professor of engineering at Brown University, who is developing a revolutionary solution to restore vision in blind patients using translational research approaches.

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.

a blog post by Managing Partner, Aidan Petrie

In the years that I have taught innovation and worked with many hundreds of companies, big and small, we hear over and over again that we have to go in search of problems to solve as a route to innovation.

Providence, RI, July 7th, 2020 - Rhode Island-based startup, Quantitative to Qualitative Health a.k.a Q2Q Health, is awarded funding through the New England Medical Innovation Center’s (NEMIC) ACTIVATE Program.

Guess it's time to start defining the term again

by Nikhil Krishnan, Out-of-Pocket

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.

Providence, RI - June 29, 2020 – The New England Medical Innovation Center (NEMIC), New England’s Premier Med Tech Venture Studio who supports innovators to bring their medical ideas forward, announces the completion of their 9-month, 16 class, 8 workshop education program. The Med Tech Leadership Program, in partnership with Real Jobs Rhode Island, is a demand-driven workforce and economic development initiative designed to train the next generation of entrepreneurs, startup executives, and industry professionals in Rhode Island’s medical technology ecosystem.

The Slater Technology Fund is a not-for-profit venture capital fund dedicated to supporting early-stage technology ventures in Rhode Island. The current Slater Technology Fund was created in 2005, but its predecessor organizations go back to 1998. Today, the company is based at the CIC in Providence, in the Wexford Innovation Center at 225 Dyer St. It has been in Providence for some time, but the predecessors were located at universities and other research institutions.

Congratulations to ResusciTech, My MOC Inc., and bosWell as they embark on the MassChallenge RI Accelerator kicking off next week. r

Christopher Jones’s road to biomedical startup success did not quite unfold with machine-like precision. Sure, he was an engineering prodigy and is a natural entrepreneur, and the company that he co-founded, HD LifeSciences, makes implants for spinal fusion surgery.

Can you believe how fast April went by? As the NEMIC staff continue to work from home due to the status of COVID-19, we still strive on delivering you insightful episodes on a variety of topics. We had our own Tom Chiginsky deliver an episode co-hosted with Amazon’s Alexa! Plus we looked at COVID-19’s impact on the workplace and HR.