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Brigham Fellow’s Skull-Mounted Precision Device Aims to Increase Access, Lower Costs for Surgery

Walid Ibn Essayed, MD, for long has had an undying passion for his specialty of neurosurgery. Years ago, his grandmother had died of a...

Anesthesiologist’s Novel Platform Expedites Healthcare AI Research

The Data-Centric Approach Yields Impactful Results In early 2018, Vesela Kovacheva, MD, PhD, an anesthesiologist for high-risk...

Ignite Event Delivers Live Insights on Working with Industry

Innovators and innovators-to-be attended Brigham Ignite’s Ignitable Ideas event on April 12 to learn from industry members.

First Brigham Ignite Awards of the Year Announced

The Two Projects Focus on Robotic AI-Guided Intubation and Gamma Delta T Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors Boston, MA-March 3, 2023 Two...

Investible Ideas from a Ventures Perspective

Hear the latest trends on venture capital investing, how VCs look at an opportunity, and how to position ideas to raise financing.

Announcing the Brigham Ignite Ignitable Ideas Series

Brigham Ignite is pleased to announce the Ignitable Ideas Series, a virtual educational series for investigators to learn how innovation can

McKenna invited as panelist at Advamed MedTech Conference

McKenna joined fellow panelists from GE Healthcare, Veranex, Becton Dickinson and Intuitive Surgical

Brigham Ignite holds special event honoring first award recipients

The early-stage innovation acceleration program celebrated its first 11 award recipients at a special event at the Brigham this evening.

Brigham Ignite Award Recipient Engineers Better Ways to Deliver Drug Therapies

This article previously appeared in Brigham Clinical & Research News Getting cancer drugs to the correct locations is one of the biggest...

Four Brigham Ignite Awards Announced

Four Brigham Ignite awards were announced today, bringing the total number of awards given to Brigham & Women’s Hospital innovators to 10.

Brigham Ignite Awards Announced

Brigham Ignite, Brigham and Women’s early-stage innovation acceleration program, recently announced its first six award recipients.

Innovation as an agent of change

For the research or clinical scientist, a discovery can be an exciting piece of a puzzle or a eureka moment in a life-long journey of study.

You have an idea, now what?

Then it hits you; Now What? This is no longer just an idea, it should be turned into something tangible to benefit science and healthcare...

Taking The Next Steps With Medical Research

You have completed your research project, possibly published the results, and maybe presented the work at a conference. Now what?

Patents

Patent basics like, How does the USPTO determine what is patentable?

Finding and Defining Your Unmet Need

The most common reason for the commercial failure of a start-up entity is not having a compelling clinical need. What exactly is an “unmet

Q&A: Filling the Unmet Need & Your Proposed Solution

Written by Ron Blackman What patient population are you targeting? While you have already identified the market need, you may find for...

Defining Your Competitive Landscape

The first step in defining your competitive landscape is to identify and define the technology’s current competition and how they fit into o

Defining Your Market

As you prepare to move your technology or product out of the academic setting towards commercial development, a key step is to define the ma

A Brief Introduction to Intellectual Property

Intellectual property is the product of a person’s creativity and it can take several forms including patents, copyright, trademarks, and tr