It’s About Time! 2023 BME Spring Capstone Team Aims to Reduce 70% Failure Rate of Common Lumbar Punctures

Lumbar punctures are a procedure performed by neurologists to obtain cerebrospinal fluid from a patient’s back, typically from the L3/L4 spinal canal, and are used for diagnosis and treatment of many neurological diseases and cancers. There are more than 8 million conducted worldwide every year, including 370,000 in the United States.   Currently, doctors feel…

Consolidation, Planning and Due Diligence: Our Annual Spotlight on the State of Preclinical for 2023

GCMI and our preclinical arm also known as T3 Labs is a trusted, proven industry-leading preclinical CRO for medical devices and other medical products. We’re an AAALAC accredited facility that conducts feasibility, proof of concept, feasibility, and safety and efficacy GLP medical device testing for studies in any therapeutic area and in small and large…

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…

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…

Beware the Unfamiliar Approach: Preclinical Implications for Novel Cell & Gene Therapies

Roughly one decade ago, scientists made significant improvements in viral vectors’ ability to deliver genetic therapeutics. Those therapies use genetic material like DNA to manipulate a patients’ own cells. Cellular (cell) therapies transfer cells into the patient whether they are the patients’ own cells or cells derived from another location or donor cells.    Because…

Who brings what to the table? Artivion’s Deepal Stevenson, M.S. shares her insights on the client / CRO relationship for effective, efficient preclinical studies and reports.

Life science companies of all shapes and sizes rely on preclinical contract research organizations (CROs) to generate the data and reports required to bring their innovations to market.   To do this effectively, and in a capital efficient manner, each entity needs to understand what they need from the other, when they need it, why…

Preclinical Implications for 3D Printed and Bioresorbable Medical Technologies

The phrase “personalized medicine” has been thrown about by so many for so long in healthcare as to defy definition: or require post graduate work in any one of dozens of specific clinical or technological fields.   For the sake of brevity, 3D printing and bioresorbable material technologies are actively realizing personalized medicine in the…

Stars Align – Stridelink quickens march to commercialization with remote monitoring capabilities, CMS CPT codes

The team’s work to date, from concept to the technology’s current state, had primed it to seize the opportunity presented by the January 2022 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announcement of five new remote therapeutic monitoring CPT codes.

Orthopaedic Innovators: Do Not Underestimate the Importance of Process in “Medtech Innovation: From Unmet Clinical Needs to Clinical Solutions”

Join GCMI’s Dr. Emily Blum, Evan Goldberg, PhD and John Tipton for an ORS Innovation Network Webinar August 31, 2022   “For over 60 years, the Orthopedic Research Society (ORS) has been the leading research society supporting engineers, orthopaedic surgeons, biologists, veterinarians, and clinicians in pursuit of a world without musculoskeletal limitations.”   GCMI and…