Funding Support for GT Innovators and Researchers with Promising Medical Technologies

Funding varies in specific levels from fiscal year to fiscal year, specifically supports projects with high potential for successful commercialization, follow on funding and improved patient outcomes. Projects are selected by GCMI leadership in consultation with the board of directors. These funds are not for staff / salary or lab support. 

You’re a researcher or engineer who has found a solid unmet clinical need. Excellent! Now the rigorous work begins.

You’re a researcher or engineer who has found a clinician with a strong unmet clinical need your technology might solve.   Outstanding! Too many technologies go looking for problems to solve instead of finding the clinically stated problem first and fitting your technology to meet it in a way that truly works in the clinical…

Moving Beyond Improvisation. Solving a High Volume, High Value Unmet Clinical Need to Advance Patient Care

A “Catheter Gripping Tool” solving an unmet need as GCMI’s grows its roster of collaborative medtech innovations with the Children’s Mercy Kansas City Center for Pediatric Innovation.   Human beings are generally good at improvisation. Assembly calls for a 10mm socket? Try this handy crescent wrench right here and maybe it will do. What happened…

Onsite State-of-the-Art CT Scanner Adds Capability, Efficiency, Time and Cost-Savings for GCMI Preclinical Customers

Image credit: Clinical Imaging Systems GCMI, the U.S. proving ground for medtech innovation, has recently acquired a GE LightSpeed VCT 64 Slice CT Scanner with cardiac gating capabilities. “The ability for these machines to generate 3D images of anatomic structures and organs in a pre-op, post-op or intra-operative scenario, including cardiac and vascular imaging, has…

GCMI CEO Sherry Farrugia Named 2023 Recipient of the Center for Global Health Innovation’s Highest Honor, the Industry Growth Award.

The Center for Global Health Innovation (CGHI) recently announced the winners of its 2023 Golden Helix Awards. Congratulations to GCMI’s CEO, Sherry Farrugia, recipient of the 2023 Industry Growth Awards for her impact on the life sciences industry in the state. The Industry Growth Awards are the highest honors bestowed each year by CGHI.  …

Ortho Innovators: Advance Your Technology, at Any Phase in Its Pathway, by Connecting with GCMI at ORS 2023

If you’re attending ORS 2023 and have a new orthopedic technology in development, including preclinical work that may be on your product development horizon, you have a wonderful chance to connect with our Director of Scientific Affairs Evan Goldberg onsite.   GCMI is the U.S. proving ground for global medical innovation. Our mission is to…

Aligned Career Opportunity: Project Manager to Advance Research and Education in Neuroscience.

Our colleague Chris Rozell, Professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair,Technical Interest Groups: Bioengineering, Digital Signal Processing at Georgia Tech asked us to share the following career opportunity advancing research and education in neuroscience. We hope this initiative and position will have the opportunity to work closely with GCMI in the future. From Chris: Georgia Tech…

Come work with our industry leading medtech innovation design and development team – Seeking a senior research engineer to join the GCMI team

GCMI, a non-profit affiliate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, is actively recruiting for a research engineer to lead multiple new medtech product development projects.   The medical device design services and product development team at GCMI facilitates medical product development through all phases – from initial concept generation through transfer to production manufacturing. We…

Can Preclinical Studies Actually Be Agile?

Quick Insights Aligned in Acceleration: Indeed, the Most Expensive Preclinical Study is the One You Have to Do Twice As mentioned in a post last month, our colleagues at Within3 are using technology to accelerate pharma and medtech innovation in some very interesting ways, all of which center around actionable insights generation and insights management. …