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Driving community-centered medical device innovation via a longitudinal interdisciplinary immersion program

Award Number: R25EB034206
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE Of BIOMEDICAL IMAGING & BIOENGINEERING
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2024
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2029

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Driving community-centered medical device innovation via a longitudinal interdisciplinary immersion program - Project Summary Implicit bias is a well-documented contributor to healthcare disparities that lead to poorer health outcomes, higher infant mortality rates, and chronic disease in racial and ethnic minority populations. There exists a clear and critical need to reimagine how we approach engineering training to improve cultural competency and facilitate patient-centered, economical solutions accessible by all people regardless of race and socioeconomic status. Barriers to paradigm change are entrenched in the ways in which we equip clinicians to care for patients and train engineers to create solutions for clinicians. Our long-term goal is to establish an interdisciplinary, team-based approach for training engineers and clinicians to identify and address barriers to medical care and efficiency. The short-term objective of this proposal is to establish a two-year community-centered medical device innovation program that leads to creative, interdisciplinary problem-solving. The program foundation is supported by three specific aims. Aim 1. Establish a pedagogy that fosters creativity and flexibility in problem-solving of community-based medical needs through multidisciplinary clinician-engineering design teams. Aim 2. Emphasize impactful, financially sustainable, and commercializable solutions based on community need as a model for improving accessibility to care for historically marginalized groups. Aim 3. Improvement of recruitment and retention of students from underrepresented groups to increase the diversity of the biomedical engineering workforce pipeline. The program will recruit 75% of students from underrepresented groups in STEM. Design teams formed by engineering and nursing students will be exposed to the continuum of the design arc through community- centered, patient-centered needs finding, courses in medical device design and regulation as well as considerations for product development and entrepreneurship. Importantly, design teams interdisciplinary training focuses on identifying medical need through direct observation and immersion into the community medical system. The design and entrepreneurship experience of the students from problem identification to medical device commercialization will be supported by the biotech incubator Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center, a Medical Device Development Steering Committee, and the Center for Community Research and Engagement. The program’s effectiveness in training students to identify and address barriers to medical care and efficiency, learning of the material, changes in behavior, and program implementation will be assessed by the Center for Program Evaluation. The proposed program will immediately and directly impact the training and development of the biomedical engineering and nursing workforce through multi-disciplinary collaboration and clinical immersion to facilitate patient-centered design thinking.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $39,719 )
2026	2026	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL	220 PAWTUCKET ST STE 400	LOWELL	MA	01854	MIDDLESEX	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	2	6/1/2026	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$39,719
														Subtotal = $39,719

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL	220 PAWTUCKET ST STE 400	LOWELL	MA	01854	MIDDLESEX	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	001	1	7/10/2025	NEW	$0
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL	600 SUFFOLK ST STE 450	LOWELL	MA	01854	MIDDLESEX	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	1	1/16/2025	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $39,935 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL	600 SUFFOLK ST STE 450	LOWELL	MA	01854	MIDDLESEX	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	1	7/18/2024	NEW	$41,535
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL	600 SUFFOLK ST STE 450	LOWELL	MA	01854	MIDDLESEX	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	001	1	7/24/2024	NEW	-$1,600
														Subtotal = $39,935

Grand Total All Awards = $79,654

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Driving community-centered medical device innovation via a longitudinal interdisciplinary immersion program

Award Number: R25EB034206

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE Of BIOMEDICAL IMAGING & BIOENGINEERING

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2024

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2029

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