Dear Colleagues,

Earlier this year, I was very pleased to announce the formation of the Penn Center for Health, Devices, and Technology (Penn Health-Tech), which is uniting Penn’s strengths throughout campus in medicine, engineering, and business to create new technologies and advance research in medical devices and systems. 

Penn Health-Tech is now accepting proposals for technology-based projects which address important healthcare needs.  Please see below guidelines on the online application submission or visit http://healthtech.upenn.edu/ for additional information on networking and collaborative opportunities.

All best,
Jon

Jon Epstein, MD
EVD/CSO

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Dear Colleagues,

Penn Health-Tech is excited to announce that they are accepting proposals in the biomedical area for technology-based projects that address important healthcare needs. 

Deadline to submit an application is 11:59pm Friday, September 15, 2017

Penn Health-Tech (PHT) is a campus-wide initiative created with the mission to increase the invention, development, testing, and translation of new health related technologies to improve patient care and quality of life. 

Eligibility:  Principal Investigator must be a full-time employees or students at the University of Pennsylvania or at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Scope: While project proposals will be accepted to meet any clinical need, particular attention for this call will be paid to technologies in the following areas:

Technology:

• Digital Health Information Infrastructure
• Data Science and Data Ecosystem
• Sensors, Devices and Systems

Healthcare

• Sensors and diagnostics for Metabolism, Cancer and Immunity
• Hospital efficiency, quality and safety
• Musculoskeletal medicine
• Pediatrics

Pipeline phases:

• Idea Generation & Vetting
• Prototyping
• Proof of Principle Tests
• Clinical Pilots

In particular, we seek to support projects that can leverage Penn’s combined strengths in Engineering, Penn Medicine & Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Proposals that cross departments, schools, and promote sharing expertise are strongly encouraged.  

Budget: Fund from $5K to $50K

Examples of funding support include:

• Time for investigators
• Supplies
• Fabrication costs
• Services such as prototyping, legal, market analysis, business plan, animal testing, clinical pilots, etc. 

Submission: September 15, 2017

For more Information & To Apply: http://healthtech.upenn.edu/