Healthcare company-building profile
West Coast Consortium for Technology and Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP)
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Company stage served
- Seed
- Cohort or participation model
- Not publicly documented
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Yes
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2011
Public description
About the program
CTIP is an FDA-funded pediatric device consortium led by Children's Hospital Los Angeles that accelerates the development and commercialization of pediatric medical devices from concept to market. It offers innovators networking, direct and indirect financial support through seed grants, and guidance on intellectual property, prototyping, engineering, testing, grant writing and clinical trial design. The consortium serves academic inventors, clinicians and outside medical device startups across California, Oregon and Washington, and is one of a small number of pediatric device consortia funded nationally by the FDA. Its network includes UCLA, Oregon Health & Science University, USC, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley and Seattle Children's Hospital. Companies engage by applying for seed funding and advisory support rather than by giving up equity.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Yaniv Bar-Cohen, MD — Co-Director, CTIP (as named in CHLA's 2018 announcement)
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- 2018 SNAPSHOT, NOT CURRENT STATE: Awarded a $6.6 million FDA grant over five years in September 2018 (CHLA press release); Had supported 120 unique projects from 15 different states as of the 2018 announcement (CHLA press release); Awarded $235,000 in seed grants across six innovators in 2018 (CHLA press release); One of only five pediatric device consortia funded nationally by the FDA at that time (CHLA press release); The five-year FDA award described ended around 2023 and the consortium site linked from the original release now serves unrelated content. Confirm the consortium is still operating before any outreach.
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