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Mar 11

Find Success as an Entrepreneur

"A diligent first time innovator will assemble, or be instructed to assemble, some combination of market data, development cost, legal and intellectual property estimates, sales and distribution costs, and business costs and then organize these anticipated expenses into a month-to-month, quarterly or annual income and expense pro forma.  From this,... read more →
Feb 09

How to Incorporate User Input into Device Development

"Innovators should reflect on the key information they would like to obtain, and the questions that should be asked in order to elicit the feedback needed. Bear in mind that there may be a range of characteristics of customers and users, so innovators should seek to include all potential perspectives.... read more →
Feb 04
Jan 21

TREAT Sabbatical Program offers necessary time and resources for commercialization progress

The Center for Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology (TREAT) is now accepting proposals for the center’s Sabbatical program. TREAT Sabbaticals are a fantastic onsite opportunity for rehabilitation researchers and innovators. Sabbaticals last between 3 and 12 months and allow visiting scholars to dedicate their full attention towards commercializing... read more →
Jan 16

Call for Proposals for Commercial Assistance

Do you have an idea for a rehabilitation or assistive technology product? TREAT is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, collaborative consortium between corporate, educational and non-profit entities providing infrastructure support and expert consultation to researchers and innovators interested in the translation and commercialization of rehabilitation research applications. TREAT is now accepting proposals... read more →
Nov 08

Chris Maeder joins TREAT as Program Manager

TREAT welcomed Chris Maeder as Program Manager at the end of 2015. Chris says he is “excited to shift gears from working with large enterprises to helping real people develop innovative solutions.” Chris is an experienced entrepreneurial leader with a strong background in program management, operational efficiency, sales management, and... read more →
Aug 27
Jun 29
RESNA / TREAT 2015 Student Design Competition Winner

RESNA / TREAT 2015 Student Design Competition Winner Selected

For the fourth year in a row TREAT sponsors the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Association of North America (RESNA) Student Design Competition. Garrett Kryt, a fourth-year undergraduate engineering student from British Columbia Institute of Technology  in Burnaby, Canada, was awarded the “Technology Most Likely to Become Commercially Available” prize in... read more →
May 04
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TREAT Announces 2015 BMEidea TREAT Award

Prize awarded to the Tremtex team from Johns Hopkins University for the Rehabilitation Technology Most Likely to be Commercialized. Tremtex is working in conjunction with clinical and research partners at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to develop an intervention to help Parkinson’s disease patients manage their debilitating motor symptoms. Parkinson’s... read more →