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In true garage innovation fashion, Billy Cohn, M.D., took a Sawzall to a painter’s tape “ribbon” to officially open the Center for Device Innovation @ Texas Medical Center (CDI @ TMC).<\/p>\n

A collaboration between the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, Johnson & Johnson Innovation and the Texas Medical Center, the CDI brings together expertise and resources for taking new medical technologies from concept to commercialization while providing\u00a0J&J’s medical devices research and development teams a state-of-the-art “maker space” to rapidly prototype and access preclinical facilities across the Texas Medical Center.<\/p>\n

“Great things are going to come out of this,” said William McKeon, president and CEO of the Texas Medical Center during his welcoming remarks. “We are glad Johnson & Johnson put its faith in Houston and the Texas Medical Center.”<\/p>\n

Bruce Rosengard, M.D., chief medical, science and technology officer of\u00a0Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, said the CDI @ TMC was “the next step in the company’s 130-year journey to bring new ideas to fruition to help patients around the world.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"Get an inside look at the Center for Device Innovation @ Texas Medical Center<\/a><\/p>\n

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In addition to getting a look around the Center for Device Innovation, J&J hosted two panels with some star power in the medical device arena.<\/p>\n

The first, moderated by Rowan Chapman, head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation California, discussed “challenges facing entrepreneurs in today\u2019s medical devices landscape,” and included:\u00a0Dan Sullivan, former CEO of NeuWave Medical;\u00a0Marv Slepian, professor of medicine (cardiology) and biomedical engineering at the University of Arizona, and founder of CSO SynCardia;\u00a0Manish Kothari, president of SRI Ventures;\u00a0Manny Villafana, founder of St. Jude Medical; and\u00a0Maurice Ferre, founder of Mako Surgical and chairman and CEO of Insightec.<\/p>\n

The second panel, moderated by\u00a0David Cassak of MedTech Strategist, featured Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies\u00a0leaders discussing the “future of medical devices innovation,” which included\u00a0Rosengard, as well as\u00a0Peter Shen and Euan Thomson, both global heads of research and development.<\/p>\n

Cohn, vice president of\u00a0Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies and director of the Center for Device Innovation, also announced three companies who were recently awarded winners of the CDI @ TMC QuickFire Challenge,\u00a0a device-focused challenge aimed at game-changing early-stage medical device innovations across strategic areas of interest for Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices, with an emphasis on surgical oncology and\/or obesity.<\/p>\n

LifeSprout, Smartfuse and Barostitch\u00a0will share $50,000, receive one year of paid lab space at JLABS @ TMC, gain access to the device prototyping lab, and receive mentorship, coaching and the opportunity for additional funding from angelMD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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