The TREAT Leadership Team is a group of clinicians, engineers, and business experts who guide the development of our programs and help innovators navigate the challenging commercialization process. After having been a part of the TREAT program over the last five years, we asked four of them to impart some... read more →
Aug
11
May
21
Laura Bleyendaal, MBA, is an Entrepreneur Fellow at TREAT. Her background includes eight years of experience working in regulatory affairs for the DePuy Synthes companies of Johnson & Johnson where she focused on commercialization of spinal surgery medical devices. Laura received her MS in Regulatory Affairs from the Northeastern University... read more →
Mar
16
Research into the development of exoskeletons for assistive or rehabilitative purposes has drawn considerable interest within the robotics community. Often, the ultimate goal of such research is to develop a device that can be mass-manufactured and commercialized to benefit a community of end users. With such exciting and novel tech... read more →
Dec
19
As an innovator tackling a problem in the world of rehabilitation or assistive technology, you may have a concept of a device, app or intervention to solve that problem. Perhaps you have already developed this solution and are exploring how to get it to market. Wherever you are in the... read more →
Sep
27
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced 60 winners of SBA’s Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. The SBA awarded $3 million in prize money to competition winners which included the New Hampshire’s Center for the Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology (TREAT) in Lebanon. The recipients, representing accelerators and incubators across... read more →
Sep
25
Suzanne Malinowski, a former TREAT awardee, was recently chosen to participate in a collaboration between TREAT and Dartmouth College’s Cook Engineering Design Center (CEDC) as a Company Sponsor. Directed by Professor Sol Diamond, the CEDC connects industry professionals with talented engineering students at Dartmouth to help solve real-world challenges that... read more →
Jul
22
The multi-conference RehabWeek was held in Toronto, June 24-28, 2019. TREAT presented a workshop on June 24th titled A Multidisciplinary Approach to Commercializing Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies. Speakers Ryan Ratts, MD from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Christine McDonough, PT, PhD from University of Pittsburg, Greg Lange, MS and Angela Smalley, PhD... read more →
Jul
22
Researchers from Duke University recently won the TREAT prize for the “Technology Most Likely to Become Commercially Available” at the 2019 RESNA Developers Showcase, part... read more →
Jul
22
A team of students from University of Waterloo recently won the TREAT prize for... read more →
Jun
03
A new module about healthcare delivery was recently added to the Clinical Rationale section of TREAT’s educational materials. This is an important addition because studying the healthcare delivery process provides valuable insight into how the clinical ecosystem influences the adoption of rehabilitation innovations. Each aspect of rehabilitation can be conceptualized... read more →