MIT Medical Device Innovation Center

The MIT Medical Device Innovation Center is harnessing MIT’s engineering capabilities and entrepreneurial tradition and the Boston area medical community to create a center of excellence in research, teaching, design and commercialization of medical devices.

The Center will provide the infrastructure to connect clinicians, faculty, students and companies to enable meaningful collaborations in research, teaching, design and commercialization of medical devices in the Boston area.

The Center will provide:
(*) Mechanical and mechatronic design capabilities for companies and clinical researchers interested in working with MIT.
(*) Dedicated courses and student research opportunities to create the next generation of medical device designers.
(*) Business/commercialization support for new technologies via the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.
(*) Administration, advising and a single point of contact.
(*) Connections with a network of the leading clinicians and medical institutions.
The Center will incubate early-stage projects and support their development by providing lab facilities and dedicated funding for graduate level assistantships and undergraduate research. Subsequently, student and clinicians teams will be assisted in seeking project-specific funding while common strategic research themes are identified for higher-level funding. Likewise, we are ready to partner with clinical researchers whose projects have a “device” component. We are seeking to build sponsorship, research and mentoring relationships with established medical device companies. Working with the Entrepreneurship Center and the Sloan School, technologies will be reviewed with respect to economic viability and guided appropriately.