{"294001":{"#nid":"294001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech, Emory Students Launch Medical Technology Incubator","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech students and engineers have teamed up with Emory students and clinicians to launch Forge, a technology incubator with a mission of developing medical entrepreneurs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have incredible clinicians at Emory, brilliant engineers at Tech, and tremendous entrepreneurial resources through VentureLab, the Advanced Technology Development Center, and FlashPoint,\u201d said Erik Reinertsen, an M.D.\/Ph.D. student at Emory and Tech and managing director of Forge. \u201cAtlanta will be a leader in this space.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForge builds on a history of productive collaborations between clinicians and engineers in Atlanta, but with a human-centric focus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s driven by the graduate and medical students,\u201d said Yogi Patel, a Ph.D. student in bioengineering. \u201cWe focus on startups, people, and learning through doing. Our colleagues in Silicon Valley and Boston have helped us understand that people are more important than specific technologies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForge aspires to bring other lessons learned from those colleagues into the Atlanta medical community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe hope to instill elements of the Silicon Valley culture into medicine: big vision, pay-it-forward mentorship, and a get-it-done attitude,\u201d said Evan McClure, an Emory M.D.\/MBA student and Forge director of finance and operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForge has already hosted pitch nights, workshops, and networking events, and is planning its first Healthcare Hackathon for the fall, all with the aim of connecting innovators and clinicians to existing resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHealthcare innovation in Atlanta is growing quickly, but suffers from fragmentation,\u201d said Reinertsen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough graduate students and entrepreneurs are spearheading Forge \u2014 under the guidance of academic leadership from Emory and Tech \u2014 undergraduates, faculty, postdoctoral scholars, residents, and fellows are encouraged to participate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForge is looking for work spaces on both the Tech and Emory campuses. More information is available at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/forgeatl.com\/\u0022\u003Eforgeatl.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech biomedical students are teaming up with students and physicians at the Emory University School of Medicine to launch Forge, Atlanta\u2019s first medical technology incubator.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech and Emory students are teaming up to create and test new medical technology."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2014-05-05 16:21:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:18","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"294011":{"id":"294011","type":"image","title":"Forge ATL Medicine 2.0 Event","body":null,"created":"1449244331","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:52:11","changed":"1475894993","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:53","alt":"Forge ATL Medicine 2.0 Event","file":{"fid":"199325","name":"10528172243_b806447f82_o.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10528172243_b806447f82_o_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10528172243_b806447f82_o_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5487759,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/10528172243_b806447f82_o_0.jpg?itok=5imSSywp"}}},"media_ids":["294011"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ForgeATL","title":"Forge on Facebook"},{"url":"http:\/\/forgeatl.com\/","title":"Forge"},{"url":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/forgeatl","title":"Forge on Twitter"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"92521","name":"forge"},{"id":"4239","name":"incubator"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"14714","name":"medical technology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:yapatel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EYogi Patel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForge\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}