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Bridging the gap between invention and commercialization in medical devices

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At Washington University, students and faculty have addressed challenges surrounding biomedical innovation and training through a novel and low-cost platform.

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Acknowledgements

IDEA Labs is made possible by the work and generous support of several groups. First, the authors applaud IDEA Labs teams for their commitment and drive to produce excellent prototypes and generate successful companies. The IDEA Labs program was developed through substantial work by IDEA Labs executive team members from its founding in December 2012 through today. Specifically, IDEA Labs would like to thank the following members for their tireless efforts to develop this program from scratch: Sam Sun, LeMoyne Habimana-Griffin, Rohan Jalalizadeh, Ravi Chacko, Mrinal Pahwa and Jessica Fan. We would also like to thank our institutional partners: Washington University in St. Louis School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of Medicine, and Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies; BJC HealthCare and St. Louis Children's Hospital; Husch Blackwell, LLP, and Polsinelli, PC. Finally, we are deeply appreciative of our many faculty and community champions who have helped develop and improve the program, a full list of whom can be found at our website, http://ideas.wustl.edu.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Avik Som is at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Medical Scientist Training Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,

    Avik Som

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tauseef Charanya is at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,

    Tauseef Charanya

  3. Stephen W. Linderman is in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Scientist Training Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,

    Stephen W Linderman

  4. Joshua S. Siegel is in the Department of Neurology, Medical Scientist Training Program, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,

    Joshua S Siegel

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Som, A., Charanya, T., Linderman, S. et al. Bridging the gap between invention and commercialization in medical devices. Nat Biotechnol 32, 1063–1065 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3041

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