What we do at The Medical Design Innovation Center

Education and expertise

• We offer certificate and graduate-level programs to educate individuals and organizations through an innovation process that starts with identifying unmet clinical needs and concludes with prototype development, pre-clinical validation, and support from our entrepreneurial ecosystem partners.
• Mentorship through EIRs provided by BOUNCE and JumpStart partners.
• Assistance with locating additional resources with our economic development partners.
• Design and engineering support to help facilitate solution development, including CAD drawings for prototypes and testing.

Space and equipment

• Collision Space for teams to work through their discovery process of identifying and validating unmet needs, or for larger group meetings. This includes reconfigurable seating and meeting space with whiteboards and monitors for PC and video collaboration.
• The Martha Boyle Suite Innovation Board Room for executive pitches, meetings, and lectures.
• Workshops and tools in our Device Development Lab and Machine Shop for building concepts and later-stage prototypes. This includes CAD workstations, electrical assembly, advanced biomedical 3D printers, 3D scanners, laser engravers, power tools, CNC machining, workbenches, and hand tools.
• Benchtop testing including compression, tension, and environmental.
• Validation support through animal studies in our CMU facility.
• REDIzone incubator space with wet labs and office rentals for early-stage startups. Additional wet lab space is also available for use.

See our spaces and equipment