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Mount Sinai BioDesign

Mount Sinai Health System

Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate
Mount Sinai BioDesign is a medical device innovation incubator embedded in the Mount Sinai Health System that turns clinical insights from its physicians and surgeons into commercially viable medical technologies. It runs an end-to-end process spanning needs identification with clinicians, rapid prototyping and digital manufacturing, device design and validation, and intellectual property protection.
Organizational model
Nonprofit
Location
New York, New York
Program types
Innovation centerPhysician innovationEntrepreneurship
Commercialization pathways
LicenseStrategic partnership
Focus areas
ClinicalMedical deviceDigitalWorkforceOperational
Public scale or maturity signals

Documented successes: Devices developed through the incubator include MitralPrint and the Layer 7 Cortical Interface, which have reached completed clinical trials and FDA submissions; Reports several mature industry partnerships within a few years of its inception; Scientific Director Benjamin Rapoport is a co-founder of Precision Neuroscience

Official engagement route
Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

Mount Sinai BioDesign is a medical device innovation incubator embedded in the Mount Sinai Health System that turns clinical insights from its physicians and surgeons into commercially viable medical technologies. It runs an end-to-end process spanning needs identification with clinicians, rapid prototyping and digital manufacturing, device design and validation, and intellectual property protection. Completed technologies are licensed to industry partners or spun out into new companies. It partners with Mount Sinai clinicians across neurosurgery, cardiology, otolaryngology and orthopedic surgery, and works with external industry partners that want to accelerate device development. It is directed by the health system's chair of neurosurgery with a neurosurgeon-entrepreneur as scientific director.

Areas of Focus

ClinicalMedical deviceDigitalWorkforceOperational

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

Publicly Reported Outcomes

  • Documented successes

    Devices developed through the incubator include MitralPrint and the Layer 7 Cortical Interface, which have reached completed clinical trials and FDA submissions; Reports several mature industry partnerships within a few years of its inception; Scientific Director Benjamin Rapoport is a co-founder of Precision Neuroscience

Leadership and Structure

Organizational home: Mount Sinai BioDesign, Mount Sinai Health System

  • Joshua B. BedersonExecutive Director; Professor and System Chair of Neurosurgery

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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

  1. Mount Sinai BioDesign official source icahn.mssm.edu. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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