Granting Tools to Advanced Medical Device Developers

Test and measurement expert National Instruments is granting up to $25,000 USD in software and services as awards to startup medical-electronic companies that are evaluating NI hardware as a component of their medical device. National Instruments has started this program in 2008 and is extending it up to June 2010.

Up to now National Instruments has awarded $1 million USD in software, support and training to 59 medical device manufacturers from around the world to use its NI LabVIEW graphical system design platform in designing medical devices.

Companies that have received medical device grant program include the following:

• Biorep Technologies - a company from Miami developing a perifusion system to assist in the isolation of cells in the pancreas for conducting diabetes research
• KNESTEL Technologie & Elektronik - a German company working on a rehabilitation robot for home use that retrains persons with neurological disturbances caused by spinal cord injury, stroke or traumatic brain injury to walk
• NuVue Therapeutics - a company from Fairfax, Virginia, working on an early diagnosis and cancer treatment method that uses an ultrasound-guided cyrothermal ablation method to deliver chemotherapy directly to the tumor
• Quantum Dental - a Toronto-based company developing The Canary System, a new approach to the early detection and treatment of tooth decay without the use of X-rays
• TecMed -a company from Albuquerque, New Mexico, that has completed a portable, fully functional prototype demonstrating the capabilities of its device design for monitoring a patient's blood glucose levels during open heart surgery to provide immediate ("therapeutic") feedback for the surgical team

To learn more visit www.ni.com/medicalgrant