Global Lectures Uniting Everyone (GLUE) is the Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-care Technologies (ACME POCT) flagship event series and serves as our primary venue to educate on the entrepreneurial pathway and product lifecycle. It provides a forum to pitch clinical problems and teach about the technologies most promising for meeting these clinical needs. Here is the link to our ACME POCT Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ACMEPOCT/featured
Join us to hear how the ACME POCT team can help advance your technology to improve patient care.
Registration Required: https://tinyurl.com/ACMEPOCT5-25
(Zoom link will be emailed to you after registration completed)
About the Talk
The Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies (ACME POCT) a partnership between Emory, Georgia Tech, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta—is offering a 1-year Translation to Clinical Impact Award for innovators developing microsystems-based point-of-care devices. Join us for this webinar to learn more about the center, the solicitation, and hear from RizLab Health about how this center has helped their project.
· Interested in learning more about ACME services: www.acmepoct.org/acme-initiatives/acme-services
· Translation to Clinical Impact Award solicitation details: www.poctrn.org/acme-solicitation-2025
· The Translation to Clinical Impact Award Submission due June 6, 2025
Special guest Mehdi Javanmard, PhD, CEO of RizLab Health, our 2023/24 awardee!
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