GOALS

• Foster interdisciplinary collaboration between engineers and surgeons to develop novel surgical devices
• Develop real-world innovative devices through a bench-to-bedside translational process
• Allow trainees with medical and engineering backgrounds to gain experience in hands-on device design

APPROACH

• Assemble teams of engineering and medical professionals and students to work on clinical problems that require an innovative approach

WORKING PROCESS

• Needs assessment (high yield clinical problem)
• Establish limitations of the state of the art
• Establish of design parameters (expert input and benchwork-based)
• Assess of available technologies to achieve the design parameters
• Design and prototype product
• Test prototype in in vitro and in vivo models