Advancing Healthtech
Collaborate, Innovate, Accelerate
CIMIT fosters collaboration among clinicians, technologists, and entrepreneurs to accelerate innovation and catalyze the discovery, development, and implementation of innovative healthcare technologies.
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Lessons for HealthTech Entrepreneurs
Innovating to Success
Learn about what it takes to succeed in healthcare from our Accelerator Team.
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CIMIT CRAASH Course
Learn from the Experts
Our 10-week program facilitates the acceleration of healthcare innovations emerging from academic labs into commercialization and clinical practice.
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Funding the Future of Healthcare
Initiatives and Awards
Our initiatives help push some of healthcare's most innovative ideas forward.
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Accelerating Healthtech Innovation
CIMIT is a network of world-class academic and medical institutions partnering with industry and government. Our mission is to foster collaboration among clinicians, technologists, and entrepreneurs to accelerate innovation and catalyze the discovery, development, and implementation of innovative healthcare technologies.
Improving Trauma Care for Injured
Civilians and Those Who Protect Them
Learn more about our new Injury Care Initiative
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VP2
Vulnerable Plaque and Patient Program
Accelerating Progress in the Detection and Treatment of Vulnerable Plaques and Patients
CRAASH is a 10-week program that facilitates the acceleration of healthcare innovations emerging from academic labs into commercialization and clinical practice. It is delivered by industry veterans working in close collaboration with project team members. It blends the decades of experience from CIMIT's pioneering work facilitating innovations and innovators with programs including the Coulter Foundation C3i Program and the NSF I-Corps Program as well as university based curricula from MIT, Yale, and others to deliver a program that addresses the unique challenges in healthcare commercialization.
The program get teams out of their comfort zone of the lab to conduct discovery interviews across key stakeholders to understand needs and test hypotheses, develop and validate value propositions and business models, define "killer" questions and experiments, and create pitches to target funders. Emphasis is placed on getting out of the lab to understand stakeholders needs, their problems to be solved and buying dynamics. Each week teams interact with a panel of experts by presenting and defending findings, attend lectures, and complete readings.
Creating Lasting Impact
on Health and Care
Read the latest update from our Clinical Impact Study
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CIMIT CoLab
Stimulate, Support, Manage, Measure
An Innovation Collaboration Platform
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CIMIT CRAASH Graduates Move on to Win
$225K in Funding to Advance Novel Measurement Technology
Read the latest news from the CRAASH program
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Transforming Point of Care
Technologies to Improve Primary Care
Learn more about POCTRN
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