BME student team needs your help! Spinal Cord Injury Patents need your help!

Augment Medical, an NCSU/UNC BME student led spinout company has been selected as a top-20 finalist for an Intel Innovator award! The company is developing communication systems for severe spinal cord injury patients.

To move on and have a chance at up to a $100,000 award, support is needed on Facebook to vote them in the top 5 of the finalists.

Here’s what to do: On your Facebook page, open up the “Intel Innovators” application. You will have to allow it (sorry! But you can remove it as soon as you are done if you like). You are given a certain number of points to “invest.”

On the tab with the 20 finalists, find PatientLink, Augment Medical’s project. Please invest all of your points.

You can also quickly double your investment if you simply click the video links on up to 10 ideas. You don’t have to watch the whole video, but you will get additional points for doing this, which will double the amount you have to invest (up to 20,500 on the 1st day and 10,500 each successive day).

You can repeat this process daily until December 19.

Thank you for helping!

Link: www.intel-innovators.com/pitch?idea_id=2218

Using Twitter to Post Jobs & Events

I recently posted a new web site called DiMeo Medtech Central, or DMC for short. As part of that endeavor, I wanted to provide an opportunity for followers of this blog to post jobs and events on their own. To do this, I set up a twitter feed called @MedtechCentral.

You'll see in the top right side of this blog, and on the "Jobs and Posts" page on DMC, a live feed of the @MedtechCentral twitter account. If you have a job or event you want to show up on this feed, just mention @MedtechCentral in a tweet with the information you are looking to disseminate. If it is a tweet fitting for the site, I'll retweet it, and it will show up in the feed.

DMC has a few other features that you may be interested in checking out, including a more organized directory of resources, an events calendar, and a service providers page.

5th Annual UNC/NCSU BME Research+Design Symposium

For those of you following along, the BME Research+Design Symposium Site has been recently updated with more information about the upcoming event. We are expecting a capacity crowd again this year that the NC Biotechnology Center.

Don't miss out on this great networking opportunity and chance to see undergraduate and graduate students present research and innovations. Projects range from a device to prevent skin degradation in neonates to a targeted drug delivery system for treatment of ischemic stroke.

Register today for the event, May 3rd, NCBC, from 3:00 - 8:00
www.bme.ncsu.edu/symposium/

Thank you to the generous sponsors that helped make this event possible, including WakeMed, the NC Biotechnology Center, Hutchison Law Group, Applied Technologies, Polyzen, Olive Law Group, Flexcell, Smith Anderson, and Jenkins Wilson Taylor & Hunt. A special thank you to the Reception Sponsor, Cook Medical.

Biomedical Equipment Technician Country Coordinator - Ghana

Engineering World Health is a non-profit organization that mobilizes the biomedical engineering community to improve the quality of health care in hospitals that serve resource-poor communities of the developing world. We began the biomedical equipment technician (BMET) training program in late 2009 to provide training for 45 technicians working in Rwanda. The program was funded by the GE Foundation with the goal of providing enough trained technicians to service medical equipment at every hospital in Rwanda within three years. Thanks to further funding from the GE Foundation, EWH has expanded the training program to Cambodia, Honduras and Ghana.

To learn more about an exciting opportunity to work as a Biomedical Equipment Technician Country Coordinator in Ghana, Please go to the following:
www.idealist.org/view/job/jgcmzfhhj874/

5th Annual BME Research+Design Symposium

The Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering

5th Annual Research+Design Symposium

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

3:00 PM - 8:00 PM

North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC/NCSU is pleased to be hosting their 5th annual Research+Design Symposium to be held at the NC Biotechnology Center on May 3rd. In the past three years, the event has attracted hundreds of participants from the area’s advanced medical technology community.

The event will include poster and oral presentations and a networking reception. Each year a number of projects have commercialization potential, and some have already achieved licensing agreements. One such project from last year earned national recognition by becoming the inaugural NCIIA BMEstart Design Competition Winner. Learn more about that here:
www.ncsu.edu/features/2010/10/the-eyes-have-it/

To see the complete agenda please visit the symposium web site at:
www.bme.unc.edu/symposium/

Register today at:
www.bme.ncsu.edu/seniordesign/register.html

Thank you to our event sponsors including WakeMed Health and Hospitals, the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Hutchison Law Group, Applied Technologies, Polyzen, Olive Law Group, Flexcell, and Jenkins Wilson Taylor & Hunt. A special thank you to the Reception Sponsor, Cook Medical.

NC IDEA Grants Program Info Session

NC IDEA's Spring 2011 grants cycle opens on Monday, February 14th (applications will be accepted through 3/11). On Tuesday, February 15th, the organization will host an informational webinar aimed at giving potential grant applicants an overview of the grant process and eligibility criteria. Join NC IDEA officials as they discuss how to apply for a grant, what they look for in an application and what types of companies are eligible for funding.

To learn more and to register, go to:
www.ncidea.org/content/spring+2011+info+session/13511