Search Results < Biological & Biomedical Sciences

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Connecticut Bioscience Pipeline Calls for Applications
This is the first of four opportunities for entrepreneurs and early-stage companies in the medical devices, drug delivery, diagnostics and health IT sectors to apply for $30,000 grants.
22 Apr 2019
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State grant to leverage biomedical innovation at Connecticut universities
The Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT) will lead a new $1 million seed grant program over two years from the Connecticut BioScience Innovation Fund to support commercialization of new biomedical ideas from Connecticut universities.
1 Jul 2015
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A look at opportunities and startups in healthcare innovation at Yale
Yale is ramping up opportunities in entrepreneurship focused on healthcare and life sciences this year. Christopher Loose led a discussion with two student founders who are developing their ventures.
Source: Yale News
19 Nov 2014
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Brainstorming better medicine
Several hours into HackingHealth@Yale, on a rainy Saturday in October, scrums of students were scattered about Davies Auditorium at the School of Engineering, furiously thinking out loud. Their challenge: innovate solutions to medical problems—everything from measuring patient compliance in clinical trials to securing social support for patients to making medical records portable.
Source: Yale Medicine Magazine
5 Nov 2014
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Yale Health Hackathon Kicks off First Year
This three day event at the Yale School of Medicine, Center for Engineering Innovation and Design, and School of Management brought together participants from a breadth of fields to come together to find solutions to issues facing health care in the U.S.
Source: Yale Daily News
13 Oct 2014
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Creating Opportunities for Medical Device Innovation
“There’s very little that’s not possible, and I want people to realize that,” Robert Langer said, summarizing his September 19 presentation at Yale. In his lecture, Langer supported that claim with a stream of examples drawn from his impressive career in innovation—a career that has resulted in over 220 major awards, produced nearly 1,050 patents worldwide, earned an honorary degree from Yale, and made Langer, an Institute Professor at MIT, the most cited engineer in history.
Source: Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science
10 Oct 2014
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Hacking Health @ Yale does a body good
Yale University is about to hack the health care system.
7 Oct 2014
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Yale Healthcare Hackathon
The Yale Healthcare Hackathon is a three day event (October 10-12, 2014) at Yale where clinicians can work with engineers, business people and successful entrepreneurial mentors to form teams and prototype solutions to address some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare. Registration required.
Source: Hacking Health @ Yale
30 Sep 2014
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Photos from Dr. Robert Langer's talk, "Creating and Implementing Breakthrough Technologies."
Dr. Robert S. Langer, David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, presented "Creating and Implementing Breakthrough Technologies" at Yale University School of Medicine on Friday, September 19, 2014.
23 Sep 2014
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CBIT Event: "Creating and Implementing Breakthrough Technologies"
10:00-11:00 Presentation will be followed by 30 minute discussion with Dr. Peter Schulam, Chair of Urology and Founder of the Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology regarding biomedical innovation opportunities at Yale.
10 Sep 2014
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Christopher Loose to head Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology
Christopher Loose, Ph.D., has been named the first executive director of Yale’s Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT), which was formed earlier this year to foster biomedical innovations.
9 Sep 2014
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New interdisciplinary Yale center aims to spur medical device innovation
Blood banks, stethoscopes, and dialysis machines are all the result of doctors who were dissatisfied with the technology available to them. Doctors and nurses continue to think about how they can improve aspects of medical technology today. The Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT), a new interdisciplinary design venture, aims to provide an outlet for clinicians at Yale to independently turn their ideas into blockbuster products.
9 Sep 2014
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Chris Loose named Executive Director of the Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT)
Chris Loose, Ph.D. has been named Executive Director of the Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT).
1 Jul 2014
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Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT)
The Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT) is an interdisciplinary initiative to foster greater innovation in medical technology. CBIT is a consortium of engineers, clinicians, scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs.
17 Jun 2014
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Yale debuts an incubator for medical inventions
Think of a more formal version of a Silicon Valley garage that’s also a think tank and fundraiser, and you have an idea of what the new Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT) will do. CBIT is a consortium of engineers, clinicians, and other researchers whose goal is to foster the development of medical devices.
Source: Yale Medicine Magazine
4 Jun 2014
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Yale Clinical Immersion Program for Covidien kicks off
The inaugural Yale Clinical Immersion Program (CIP) has officially kicked-off! The first of four classes with the theme of OB/GYN began with Week I setting the stage for an exciting 12 weeks at Yale.
16 May 2014
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Safe transport
When it comes to organ transplants, the intestine has historically been off-limits. After the innovations of four Yale students, however, the future of small intestine transplants is beginning to look slightly less grim.
Source: The Yale Herald
18 Apr 2014
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Yale students design a new device to transport intestinal transplants to patients
Almost 20 people die every day while waiting for an organ transplant. For patients in need of intestinal transplants, the wait is even more agonizing because countless healthy intestines are discarded due to the difficulty of transporting them. To solve this problem, five Yale students have designed a new intestinal transport unit.
9 Apr 2014
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Yale class creates the medical tools of tomorrow
It’s not every day that a college semester project has the potential to save lives. Yet with each tweak and tinker in Joseph Zinter’s Medical Device Design and Innovation course at Yale University, students came closer to finding novel solutions to real-world problems facing doctors and patients.
Source: New Haven Register
20 Dec 2013