About this Event
For the 7th consecutive year, The UMass Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies (CAPCaT) in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Disorders is pleased to present this high-energy, high-value event for the entire digital health innovation ecosystem. Join us and open the door to investment, big company/little company strategic partnerships and grant funding opportunities.
Who should attend?
- Life sciences startups seeking corporate strategic partnerships.
- Researchers seeking to build their early-stage innovation through NIH grant funding.
- Life sciences entrepreneurs seeking an opportunity to network with potential corporate strategic partners.
- Innovators, investors, academics, students, and anyone, anywhere, interested in the future direction of digital health, diagnostics and vital point-of-care technologies.
The CAPCaT Point-of-Care Showcase will kick off with a Research Symposium!
This opportunity is focused on respiratory health innovation—and your work could be featured.
We are now accepting abstract submissions from academic researchers developing novel point-of-care technologies for the diagnosis, monitoring, management, or treatment of respiratory disorders.
AGENDA:
3:00-5:00 PM - Research Symposium: focused on point-of-care technologies that enhance the diagnosis, monitoring, management, and treatment of respiratory disorders
5:00 PM- Welcome
5:15 PM - Speaking Program
5:45 PM - Q & A
6:00 PM - Pitch Presentations
6:50 PM - Presentation on Product Development Resources
7:15 PM- Networking & Poster Session
8:00PM - Program Close
Fireside Chat - Money Meets Medicine: Funding Point of Care Innovation
Pitch Presenters
- Alexander Colton - CEO, CosmosRx
- Bryan Nolan - Founder & CEO, myBiometry
- Hector Torres - CEO & Co-Founder, Hemorai
- Mehdi Mortazawy - Co-Founder & CTO, Coredio Corp.
- Richard Bruno, MD - Assistant Clinical Professor, Clinical Series - Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine
- Miranda Jamieson, MBA - Senior Director World Wide Marketing - VELYS Digital Surgery, Johnson & Johnson
What does it take to turn early-stage diagnostics into real-world impact? This fireside chat brings together investors, clinicians, and innovators leading the success of point-of-care technologies to share how capital flows into these (healthcare’s most urgent) solutions. From early-stage funding through to commercialization, speakers will share what makes a company investable, where the biggest opportunities lie, and how innovators can navigate the path from concept to adoption.Whether you're building, funding, or scaling the next generation of medical innovation, this conversation offers perspectives you won’t want to miss.
Panel of Reviewers
- Gladys Nunez - Executive Director, Amgen Ventures
- Sandra Nagale, PhD - Director, AI and Digital Health Partnerships & Research, Boston Scientific
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mintz, 1 Financial Center, Boston, United States
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