National Instruments Awards $1M in Grants

National Instruments has awarded $1 million in software, support and training to medical device manufactures since 2008 through its grant program, according to the Austin, Texas, firm. The company also said it is continuing the grant program this year and accepting applications until June 30.

Since the program began in 2008, 59 grant recipients from around the world have used technology, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical system design platform, to reduce the cost and complexity of medical device development and quickly create functional prototypes that help prove their inventions, the company said.

The National Instruments Medical Device Grant program awards up to $25,000 in software and services to startups that are evaluating NI hardware as a component of their medical device.

Companies that have taken advantage of the medical device grant program include:

• Biorep Technologies—a company fromdeveloping 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 in Fairfax, Va., working on an early diagnosis and cancer treatment method that uses an ultrasound-guided cyrothermal ablation method to deliver chemotherapy directly to the tumor

• TecMed –a company in Albuquerque, N.M., 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 immediatefeedback for the surgical team

For more information about the grant program, visit www.ni.com/medicalgrant.