- Drug delivery and manufacturing technologies that enable multiple new therapeutics and optimizes the patient experience (ex. advanced assembly of multi-specifics)
- Artificial intelligence and/or automated technologies to support life science operations:
- Automation, miniaturization, & high-throughput
- Data collection, utilization, & management
Endovascular
- Cardiology
- Neurosurgery
- Drug/Device Combination (precision delivery of targeted therapeutics/biologics)
- Peripheral Interventions
- Electrophysiology/Mapping/Ablation (various energy sources)
- Any smart guidewire or catheter-related technologies
Medical Robotics
- Endovascular technologies in Robotics
- Interventional robotics
- Endoscopic robotics
- Flexible Endoscopy
- Endoscopic accessories/surgical equipment (through 3mm workchannel)
- ERCP devices
- Single Use Endoscopes
- ReDirect – Repurposing existing therapeutics as countermeasures
- Lab at Home – Novel platform technologies and instrumentation for on-demand detection of multiple health markers
- Digital MCM’s – Diagnostic tools to augment existing MCM’s
- Host-Directed Therapeutics – Therapies aimed at fortifying and restoring balance to the body’s natural defense mechanisms
- Healing Lungs – Addressing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients
- Vaccines on Demand – Manufacturing technologies / systems for vaccine production/distribution at or near point of service
- RePair – repurposing existing FDA-approved and late-stage development therapeutics as potential MCMs for radiological and nuclear events
Bayer
- Oncology: Targeted Radionuclide Therapies (TRT), Precision Molecular Oncology (PMO), Next Generation Immuno-Oncology (IO)
- Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases:
- Novel treatments and therapies in Chronic Kidney Disease, Heart Failure, and Rare Disease
UMass CAPCat
Point of Care Technologies specific to the following disorders:
- Heart
- Lung
- Blood
- Sleep
Devices intended to simplify and improve therapeutic procedures, especially in minimally invasive surgery, filling treatment gaps and advancing patient care
Surgical spaces of interest include:
- Uterine (e.g. Hysterectomy, Myomectomy, Endometriosis, Hysteroscopy)
- Pelvic (Stress incontinence, Overactive bladder, Pelvic organ prolapse)
- Breast (Lumpectomy, Mastectomy)
- Urologic (Cystoscopy, BPH, Stone management, resection)
- ENT (Thyroidectomy, neck dissections)
- Pediatric (Appendectomy, Hernia)
- General (Bariatric, Bowel, colon)
J&J Medtech
- Cardiovascular
- Neurovascular
- Obesity
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Interventional oncology
- Surgical ophthalmology
- Orthopedic Repair – soft tissue and infection prevention
- Robotic Surgery & Digital Solutions
- Tissue Regeneration & Repair
- Advanced Imaging & Visualization
- Biomaterials & Biologics
- Digital Technology using AI/ML
UMass M2D2
Novel innovations / solutions in the following therapeutic areas:
- Critical care
- Emergency medicine
- Cardiac arrest
- Respiratory arrest
- Sepsis
- Trauma
- Post-myocardial infarction
Novel innovations / solutions in the following technology areas:
- Non-invasive patient monitoring
- Real-time quantification of coronary and peripheral microvascular function in a clinical setting using variables (or surrogates) such as flow, velocity, pressure, and/or resistance.