A group from CTTC attended the annual Southeastern Medical Device Association conference in Atlanta.
The conference featured a series of pitch rounds from regional medtech companies, keynote talks from the VP of Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Device Companies and the Global Head of IBM Watson Health, and a poster session featuring early stage medical devices from universities and startups.
CTTC was joined at the conference by four Vanderbilt undergraduate and graduate student inventors who pitched their respective technologies to the conference attendees and learned more about the process of commercializing medical device technologies. Sinead Miller pitched her company called PathEx, which is developing a novel device for the treatment of sepsis. It was developed in Todd Giorgio’s lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Mohit Ganguly pitched a technology for infrared control of neurons. It was developed in Duco Jansen’s lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Kevin Cyr pitched his rapid, low-cost diagnostic test for sickle cell disease, developed in the SYBBURE Program led by John Wikswo. Oscar Ayala pitched a non-invasive diagnostic tool for detecting ear infections, developed in Anita Mahadevan-Jansen’s lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
The conference generated a number of new regional medical device contacts and was an overall success for CTTC.
Pictured left to right: Sinead Miller, Taylor Jordan, Phil Swaney, Mohit Ganguly, Kevin Cyr, Ashok Choudhury, Oscar Ayala
