Interested in DesignWise Medical’s unique business model and growing success, Fran Howard of the Twin Cities Business Magazine highlighted the company in the recent July 2011 issue. Retracing how company founder and CEO Brad Slaker first created the idea for the company, the article focuses on DesignWise Medical’s response to the challenges of the pediatric [...]
Chosen as a finalist from forty entries in the 2011 Mosaic Social Entrepreneurs’ Cup, DesignWise Medical made their final presentation on Thursday, June 16th at the EPCON conference, hosted by Social Venture Partners of Minnesota. In attendance were over 450 people including social entrepreneurs, charitable foundations, engaged philanthropists, students and many others interested in making a difference through [...]
DesignWise Medical has been selected as a finalist of the Mosaic Social Entrepreneurs Cup competition. We were chosen as one of four finalists from 40 total entries. The Mosaic Social Entrepreneurs Cup is hosted by SVP MN as a division of the Minnesota Cup. The purpose of the Mosaic Social Entrepreneurs Cup is to seek [...]
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Please join us for one of our three (3) remaining open houses beginning on Thursday, March 10th, as we continue to launch the next phase of DesignWise Medical. All open houses will be from 4:30pm – 6:00pm and will be held at the DesignWise Medical headquarters in NE Minneapolis. Join Us to…. See our current pediatric medical [...]
DesignWise Medical was has been featured in the November 2010 issue of the BioBulletin, the newsletter of BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota. The title of the article is, ‘DesignWise Medical: A new approach to helping kids’. Article Link: http://www.biobusinessalliance.org/news.asp
DesignWise Medical founder, Brad Slaker, spoke during a recent panel discussion at UW-Stout that looked at ways to implement the UW System Research to Jobs report. The report studied how to create jobs in Wisconsin by using research conducted at UW System schools and by tapping into resources available throughout the system. Click on the [...]
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GuideStar Health Giveaway is giving away $5,000 to the organization that has the greatest number of reviews on their website during the month of June. Join DesignWise Medical in our pursuit to identify, create, and deliver solutions for children’s unmet medical needs. Click the link and share a quick story about how you’ve been impacted [...]
DesignWise Medical sponsored 4 senior design project teams that culminated over the last 2 weeks with design shows and final reports. DesignWise Medical typically will sponsor a student desing project for new product development efforts and then once the student project is completed, transfer the continuing development to our network of volunteer professionals and retirees. The [...]
The weekend of March 20/21, 2010 we participated in the Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge. The event, in its third year, pairs nonprofit organizations with volunteer web developers in a 24-hour marathon coding session. We were thrilled to be selected as one of 16 worthy nonprofits this year and were matched with the Full Court Press [...]
Janet Moore from the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote a nice overview of DesignWise Medical featuring our Overnight Pediatric Oxygen Delivery (OPOD) system. Inspired by mother and physiology instructor Ann Gettys, this project was further developed by a design class at the University of St. Thomas and prototyped at the the University of Wisconsin-Stout. A [...]
DesignWise Medical has applied its unique development approach to pediatric medical device development to a pediatric device need proposed by IPI [Institute for Pediatric Innovation]. The device is an improved vein transilluminator used to locate peripheral veins for the insertion of IV’s and PICC lines. No device currently exists in the market that has [...]
DesignWise Medical was honored by being chosen as one of eight recipients of the LifeScience Alley – 2009 New Technology Showcase Winner. Our winning product entry was the OPOD [Overnight Pediatric Oxygen Delivery] System.
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