CIMIT Program: New Initiatives

New Initiatives

NURTURING HIGH-RISK, POTENTIAL HIGH-IMPACT PROJECTS

CIMIT supports early stage, collaborative research projects for improving patient care, with emphasis on devices, procedures, diagnosis, and peri-procedural systems. CIMIT recognizes that novel ideas that support CIMIT's model may not fall into one of our established, defined Science Programs. Therefore, CIMIT has created the New Initiative Program to nuture individual projects with high impact and high potential that may lead to establishing new CIMIT Science Programs or to solutions to unsolved clinical problems.

Projects
Forum/Events

Current Funded New Initiative Projects
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR	INSTITUTION	PROJECT TITLE
Utkan Demirci	Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Droplet-based microfluidic chip for the cryopreservation of blood
Utkan Demirci	Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Interdigitated Electrodes for Disposable HIV Diagnostics
Catherine Klapperich	Boston University	Integrated Microfluidic Platform for Detection and Diagnosis of Avian Influenza
Bruce Levy	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Remotely Monitored Inhaler to Predict and Prevent Asthma Attacks
Stephen Pelton	Boston Medical Center	Development of safe and effective novel transtympanic membrane strategy for treatment of acute bacterial otitis media
Homer Pien	Massachusetts General Hospital	Advanced CT Functional Imaging: Development and Validation
Rob Sheridan	Massachusetts General Hospital	Magnetic Endotracheal Tube Imaging Device
George Whitesides	Harvard University	Development of a Prototype Microfluidic Detector Enabling CD4 T Cell Counting in HIV/AIDS

Contact Haleh Armian, CIMIT Senior Manager, Business Development for more information regarding Commercialization Opportunities.

New Initiatives at the CIMIT Forum and Past Events
EVENT	DATE	SPEAKERS	DETAIL
CIMIT Summer Education Series 2008	July 29, 2008	Kit Parker, PhD: Harvard University Daniel Irimia, PhD: MGH	Frontiers of Microfluidics and Microsystems in Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Medicine • Hierarchical Design of Heart Muscle • Microtools for Probing into Cell Motility
CIMIT Summer Education Series 2008	July 22, 2008	Mehmet Fatih Yanik, PhD: MIT Joe Tien, PhD: Boston University	Frontiers of Microfluidics and Microsystems in Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Medicine • High-throughput On-chip Small-animal Screening for in vivo Genetic/compound Discoveries • Microfluidic Gels For Microvascular Tissue Engineering
CIMIT Summer Education Series 2008	July 15, 2008	Rashid Bashir, PhD: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign William Rodriguez, MD: MGH	Frontiers of Microfluidics and Microsystems in Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Medicine • Integrated Silicon Micro-fluidic Devices for Detection of Bacteria • Microfluidic CD4 Cell Counting for Resource-Limited Settings
CIMIT Summer Education Series 2008	July 8, 2008	Jongyoon Han, PhD: MIT Joel Voldman, PhD: MIT	Frontiers of Microfluidics and Microsystems in Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Medicine • Micro/Nanofluidic Tools for Molecular Analysis and Diagnosis • Microscale Manipulation of Cells and Their Environment for Cell Sorting and Stem Cell Biology
Forum: Novel Engineering Initiatives: Fiber Optics for Xrays and Composite Materials	May 13, 2008	Rajiv Gupta, MD, Director, MGH and Theodore Morse, PhD, Boston University Photonics Center Nick Sherrow-Groves, Diego Gonzalez, Chris Lee, and Michael Martin, Engineering Majors, Harvey Mudd College	• Scintillating Nano-fibers for Ultra-high Definition X-ray Imaging • Harvey Mudd College Student Project: Blast Armor Using Machine-Augmented Composite Materials
Forum: The Science of Sleep	Feb. 26, 2008	Robert Thomas, MD, BIDMC Tom Scammell, MD, BIDMC	• Integrated Sleep Stability: Dynamic Mapping of Sleep Oscillations in Health and Disease • Modeling the Dynamics of Sleep Using State Space Analysis
Forum: Experts Discuss Urological Issues	Dec. 11, 2007	Shahin Tabatabaei, MD; MGH Michael Cima, PhD; MIT	• Current State of Managing Voiding Dysfunction • Medicine Delivery Methods for Overactive Bladder, Interstitial Cystitis and Bladder Cancer
Forum: Specialists Discuss Rise of Melanoma	Jun. 19, 2007	Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD; MGH, HMS David E. Fischer, MD, PhD; Dana-Farber CancerCare Institute, CHB	• Changes and Challenges in Melanoma Genetics • Novel Strategies for Treatment and Prevention of Melanoma
MIT 2.75: Students Present Prototypes of Medical Devices	Mar. 13, 2007	Christopher Thompson, MD, MHES; BWH, HMS, Dana Farber CancerCare Institute Martha Vibbert, PhD: BMC Michael Seiden, MD, PhD; HMS, MGH, Dana Farber CancerCare Institute	• MIT 2.75 Precision Machine Design Class Physician/Student Team Presentations
MIT 2.75: Students Present Prototypes of Medical Devices	Mar. 6, 2007	Zev Williams, MD, PhD; MGH, BWH Linda Lee, MD; BWH Jean-Valery Coumans, MD; MGH, MGH	• MIT 2.75 Precision Machine Design Class Physician/Student Team Presentations
Forum: Experts Discuss Research to Counter Asthma	Feb. 6, 2007	George O’Connor, MD; BMC Bruce Levy, MD; HMS, BWH Michael Singer, MD, PhD; Health- Honors Corp., Boston VA Medical Center	• Challenges and New Directions in Treating Asthma

Program News
ARTICLE TITLE	PUBLICATION	DATE
Made-for-the-military Products Put Brakes on Bleeding	CNN.com	March 2, 2007
More in Massachusetts Get Drug for Stroke	Boston Globe	October 20, 2006

Video: CIMIT Life-Saving Innovation in Early Stage of Trauma.

Program Leader

Kirby G. Vosburgh, PhD
kvosburgh@partners.org

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