Each year, the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) sponsors these prestigious awards to honor members for excellence in technical and professional achievements. Congratulations to all of the recipients of the 2024 EMBS Awards.

Innovate4Kids has announced a new funding opportunity aimed at developing innovative medical devices to combat substance use disorders and addiction among youth. This initiative seeks to support entrepreneurs, researchers, medical device developers, nonprofits, and academic institutions dedicated to creating impactful solutions for this pressing health issue.

Co-hosted by NeuroTech Harbor and CIMIT's CINTA, through the NIH's Blueprint MedTech program, we invite you to our Spring 2024 Fireside Chat Series to hear from neurotech innovators and experts.

Within one year of launching its incubator hubs, the National Institutes of Health Blueprint MedTech program has issued nine awards in its first competition cycle. The MedTech program seeks to accelerate transformative medical devices to restore brain health, improve healthy aging and treat disorders of the nervous system. The first round of these awards totals $11 million.

Equitech is the principle that diversity of teams, leadership, and perspectives is a force multiplier that fuels inclusive technology innovation. A key corollary of this principle is that a more inclusive innovation space is likely to produce solutions that are more equitable and accessible to all communities, especially the underserved.