Healthcare company-building profile
Center for Medical Innovation
University of Pittsburgh (Swanson School of Engineering)
AcceleratorUniversity acceleratorUniversityActive
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- University accelerator
- Organization
- University of Pittsburgh (Swanson School of Engineering)
- Organization type
- University
- Location
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Company stage served
- Early stage
- Cohort or participation model
- Periodic pilot funding calls plus degree and certificate programs; not a residential cohort
- Investment or funding offered
- Yes
- Published investment terms
- Non-dilutive pilot funding awards; amounts not published on the program site
- Equity or fee model
- No equity
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2012
Public description
About the program
Pitt's Center for Medical Innovation fosters collaborations among engineers, clinicians, students and industry to advance translation of innovative biomedical technologies toward commercial realization. It runs a pilot funding process for early-stage device projects and educates innovators through the Professional Master of Science and graduate certificate in Medical Product Engineering. It is housed in the Swanson School of Engineering alongside Pitt's bioengineering department and has been operating since 2012.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Medical devicesmedical product engineeringbiomedical technology translation
- Category: University accelerator
- Program structure: Periodic pilot funding calls plus degree and certificate programs; not a residential cohort
- Published terms: Non-dilutive pilot funding awards; amounts not published on the program site
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