Since it’s founding, Simbex has been helping innovators de-risk their product development through the experience we have gained in our own product development efforts. Over the past decade, two federally funded commercialization centers have leveraged Simbex experience to help over 500 product ideas in the pediatric and rehabilitation markets.
TREAT
Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology
TREAT’s mandate is to help the inventors overcome hurdles in the commercialization process. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), TREAT offers a variety of assistance programs to assess products, technology, or services and define objective measures and milestones.
NEPDC
New England Pediatric Device Consortium
NEPDC, funded by the FDA’s Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD), is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, collaborative consortium that provides infrastructure, expert consultation, and execution of technology translation and commercialization to innovators of pediatric technologies.