CIMIT: Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology

Grants & Awards

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS (RFA)

Science Grants and Clinical Systems Innovation Grants:
Pre-proposals accepted
Jan. 1, 2009 - Feb. 15, 2009.

The CIMIT Prize for
Primary Healthcare:
Letters of intent accepted
through Jan. 15, 2009.

• More Grants & Awards Info
• Grant Forms
• Funded Projects
• External Grants & Funding Opportunities

CIMIT Connections:
Who Can Help

Site Miners
CIMIT Site Miners are a critical element in how the consortium identifies and connects clinical champions with scientists and technologies. Site Miners are well-established professionals on the staff or faculty of the CIMIT Member institutions (the "Site"). These individuals serve as a liaison between the Site and the CIMIT Consortium.

Program Leaders
Program Leaders are charged with cultivating investigators, nurturing and managing Science Program activities and sharing and disseminating the results.

Facilitation Leaders
CIMIT Facilitation Leaders are a core staff of experts to coach, support, and network project leaders in ways that facilitate their ultimate success and help achieve real clinical impact.

Investigator Facilitation Services

In addition to Grants, CIMIT offers facilitation services customized to the needs of each funded project and investigator.

Click the image below for a larger view of the CIMIT Facilitation diagram.

Investigator facilitation services include:

EDUCATION & CONVENING PROGRAM
Providing a rich environment for the cross-fertilization of ideas and information among leaders and students in medicine, science, and engineering, as well as industry. Attend the weekly Forum or register for the Innovation Congress.

INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS
Creating mutually beneficial collaborations, CIMIT industry partnerships are an efficient route to finding the people, places and expertise needed for successful technology development and implementation in healthcare. Learn more.

FOR INVESTIGATORS:
View the presentation "Managing Industry Relationships".

TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION
Maximizing the deliverable benefits derived from funded translational research projects, programs, and initiatives emphasizing intellectual property protection and capabilities developed by CIMIT projects. Learn more.

Fundraising Support & Facilitation
Securing financial support from a wide variety of constituencies with CIMIT’s Program Leaders and investigators to identify, cultivate and solicit prospective donors for their specific initiatives. Learn more.

REGULATORY AFFAIRS SUPPORT
Identifying, characterizing, and recommending strategies to address key regulatory and coverage/payment challenges throughout the product development lifecycle. Learn more.

Mission

To improve patient care by facilitating collaboration among scientists, engineers and clinicians to catalyze the discovery, development and implementation of innovative technologies, emphasizing minimally invasive approaches.

Who We Are & What We Do

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CIMIT's Mission.

Science Programs

The CIMIT Science Program structure supports, organizes and enables the facilitation of interdisciplinary translational research.

CIMIT's portfolio of multi-disciplinary, inter-institutional research projects led by committed experts in emerging areas of medical innovation include:

Biodetection & Sepsis Control
Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Cardiovascular Disease
Clinical Systems Innovation:
Of The Futures
Medical Device Plug-and-Play
Global Health Initiative
Image Guided Therapy
Minimally-Invasive Surgery:
Natural Orifice Translumenal
Endoscopic Sugery (NOTES)
Neurotechnology
New Initiatives
Optical Diagnostics
Simulation
Trauma & Casualty Care

More CIMIT Program information.

CIMIT Blog: Interact

Exchange ideas
and information
pre- and post
Forum online on
the Forum Blog.