Our Process: What is Design Freeze and How Does the Design and Development Phase Work at GCMI?
Design and Development for medtech: digging in to complete design tasks, achieving design freeze and ensuring readiness for manufacturing.
GCMI Builds PPE Business in Six Weeks to Help Protect U.S. Healthcare Workers Battling COVID-19 – White Paper
GCMI helps medtech innovators, including physicians, academic researchers and professors, startups and large strategic companies, bring their products to market. Our work to successfully commercialize medtech innovation to date has been almost exclusively as a service provider. When the need became apparent that we could play a significant role in getting desperately needed PPE…
More Healthcare Shortages Lead to Another Powerful Georgia Tech, GCMI Collaboration: Redefining Hand Sanitizer and Donating 7,000 Gallons to Fight Covid-19 via GT Research Horizons
Following closely on the heels of GCMI’s work with Georgia Tech and others to design, produce and deliver hundreds of thousands of PPE face shields to frontline health workers, Georgia Tech and GCMI have combined their resources to help solve another critical shortage in healthcare: hand sanitizer. Alarmed to discover a looming shortage in…
What does the Project Planning process for medtech innovation look like?
Where does Medtech Project Planning fit in with Product Development and why is it important? Let’s review the basic steps for successful Project Planning. What is Project Planning? Project planning, also referred to as “Phase 1” at GCMI, follows directly after the feasibility phase, “Phase Zero.” Phase 1 is the beginning of the formal…
Watch: Medical Device Innovation: A one-on-one with ATDC Lead Entrepreneur in Residence Frank Tighe and GCMI CEO Tiffany Wilson
Tiffany Wilson, CEO of The Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI), and Frank Tighe, Lead Entrepreneur in Residence at The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), discussed the medical product development process for early stage innovators. Learn from their experiences by watching. Too many promising medtech innovations and early stage companies fail unnecessarily…
NBC News: “Georgia student, son of 2 first responders, creates lifesaving COVID-19 equipment”
Friends and colleagues, we hope you will enjoy this inspiring story of innovation and collaboration that is helping keep our frontline healthcare professionals safe during this time of desperate need. “I saw nothing better I could do to give back to people like my mom, my dad — who have been working in emergency services…
Medical Device Innovation: A design and development one-on-one with ATDC Lead Entrepreneur in Residence Frank Tighe and GCMI CEO Tiffany Wilson
The design and development process can make or break a medical device’s commercial potential. It is dependent on careful consideration of several intersecting aspects: technological, clinical, commercial and legal. Too many promising medtech innovations and early stage companies fail unnecessarily because they run out of funding before achieving milestones required for next-round investments. Medical device…
Aftermath: Three top reasons new medtech development projects fail and ways to avoid them.
Medtech innovation is an exciting, yet risky enterprise. The vast majority of venture capital and strategic investors now want to see early investment in de-risking medical innovations. There is simply too much potential for failure in the pathway to commercialization, plus financial risk related to market forces and competitive products. Too many medtech development…
GCMI’S COVID-19 SAFETY MEASURES AND GUIDELINES
As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to force all of us to find safe paths forward, GCMI continues to remain operational across all service lines including design & development, preclinical services and life cycle advisory. Several states including Georgia are opening businesses and adjusting to life in the COVID-19 era. GCMI remains focused on the…
Collaboration in Action: How Georgia Tech faculty and the Flowers Invention Studio used GCMI and the Atlanta medtech ecosystem to bring desperately needed PPE to frontline healthcare workers.
In mid-March 2020, the shortage of personal protective equipment for healthcare providers responding to the COVID-19 outbreak had become a national emergency. By the time the University System of Georgia suspended on-campus instruction and asked students to depart campus by March 13 in response to rapidly increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases, Christopher Saldana, Ph.D., associate…