Center for Medical Technology & Innovation

Where will you be after one year in the CMTI?

Every company that builds medical devices needs people that can interact with their customers. CMTI students spend the first two months in the progra…

BME459 Applied Human Anatomy

Consider how devices that are designed to deliver electrical impulses to tissue can be used in applications such as deep brain stimulation, cardiovasc…

Interacting directly with clinicians.

A fundamental aspect of any medical device company is identifying and documenting unmet clinical needs. The CMTI puts you there right at the beginning…

FDA regulatory and Intellectual Property Training

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CMTI students meet Steve Sasson — Inventor of the digital camera

CMTI students meet Steve Sasson -- Inventor of the digital camera

CMTI students met with Steve Sasson (inventor of the digital camera) during an exclusive IEEE event in Rochester. In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obam…

MedTech Annual Meeting

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CMTI students meet Honorable Lovely A. Warren, Mayor of Rochester

Honorable Lovely A. Warren, Mayor of Rochester declared August 13th, 2015 to be Steven Sasson Day at Eastman House. The CMTI students had the opportu…

Visit local companies through the CMTI!

The CMTI visited nearby Tessy Plastics (Elbridge, NY), a leading contract manufacturer that produces plastic components for medical device…

CMTI Students at Hajim Design Day — 2015

CMTI Students at Hajim Design Day -- 2015

Every year, student teams at the University's Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences partner with local companies and institutions to …

Visit local companies through the CMTI!

Visiting companies like Welch Allyn/Hill Rom help students appreciate where they will fit into the industry. Students met with John Lane (Director of…

Why Rochester?

The Finger Lakes are one of the gems of Upstate and Central NY. During a trip to Welch Allyn/ Hill Rom, we visited Skaneateles Lake. The cleanes…

CMTI visits the Jacobs Institute

Another CMTI tour gave us convincing evidence that translational medicine and innovation are strong across Western NY. On August 25th, we visited the…

What makes Rochester different?

There is only 981ft between the Robert B. Goergen Hall for Biomedical Engineering and Optics and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and De…

CMTI Students present top unmet needs to medical device experts!

From left to right: CMTI Students: Brittany Garrison, Kerry Donnelly, Spencer DeCinque and Sadedine El…

Learn, Discover, Heal, Create, and build products that help make patients’ lives ever better.

If you are an engineer and your passion is to help people, our 1yr graduate M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering offered through the CMTI will put your career on track within this highly rewarding field. Learn how to apply engineering based principles to translate unmet clinical needs into a proven concept. Students within the CMTI MS program receive extensive training in the commercialization process of medical devices. Become familiar with the complexities of the medical device industry including FDA regulations, intellectual property, and quality systems. Contact us today for more information!

The CMTI resides within the Department of Biomedical Engineering and is a joint collaboration between the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences and the School of Medicine & Dentistry.