CIMIT Consortium Institution: MIT

Founding Consortium Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in 1861 as a “teaching laboratory,” to couple teaching and research and focus on real-world problems. This mission has provided a setting for one of the most respected technology transfer programs in the country, as well as many research units that focus on interdisciplinary research.

MIT is one of the four institutions that came together in 1998 to found CIMIT. In addition to the CIMIT-funded projects MIT researchers have pursued, CIMIT and MIT have been working together to provide meaningful training in medical device development for graduate students in the MIT 2.75 class.

In addition to general CIMIT grants, MIT graduate students in engineering are eligible for the CIMIT/MIT Fellowship.

Recent CIMIT-Funded Projects Awarded
to MIT Investigators

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR	PROJECT TITLE	PROGRAM AREA
Elazar Edelman	High Throughput Flow System for the Generation of Thrombotic Fingerprints Tissue engineering therapies for inhalation injury	Image Guided Therapy Inhalation Technology
John Guttag	Finding Medically Relevant Patterns in Lengthy Streams of Physiological Data	Image Guided Therapy
Klavs Jensen	High-Throughput Quantitative Microinjection into Individual Cells	Minimally Invasive Surgery
Trudy Pang	Initial Clinical Implementation of a Novel, Non-Invasive, Patient-Specific Electrographic Seizure Detection System with Two Outputs: An Audible Alarm and Energized Electromagnets for Activation of Vagus Nerve Stimulation	Neurotechnology
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6.25.09 ANNOUNCEMENT:
$150,000 Engineering Prize awarded to CollaboRhythm Team.

CIMIT Prize competition recognizes student research using novel technologies to address major diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in primary healthcare.

The 2009 CIMIT Prizes have been awarded to student teams at four universities: University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University; MIT and Princeton. The four winning projects were selected from the ten finalists chosen last February from a field of 78 proposals.