CAPCaT 7th Annual Point-of-Care Showcase
Schedule
Tue Jun 02 2026 at 03:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Mintz | Boston, MA
About this Event
For the 7th consecutive year, The UMass Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies (CAPCaT) in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Disorders is pleased to present this high-energy, high-value event for the entire digital health innovation ecosystem. Join us and open the door to investment, big company/little company strategic partnerships and grant funding opportunities.
Who should attend?
- Life sciences startups seeking corporate strategic partnerships.
- Researchers seeking to build their early-stage innovation through NIH grant funding.
- Life sciences entrepreneurs seeking an opportunity to network with potential corporate strategic partners.
- Innovators, investors, academics, students, and anyone, anywhere, interested in the future direction of digital health, diagnostics and vital point-of-care technologies.
The CAPCaT Point-of-Care Showcase will kick off with a Research Symposium!
This opportunity is focused on respiratory health innovation—and your work could be featured.
We are now accepting abstract submissions from academic researchers developing novel point-of-care technologies for the diagnosis, monitoring, management, or treatment of respiratory disorders.
AGENDA:
3:00-5:00 PM - Research Symposium: focused on point-of-care technologies that enhance the diagnosis, monitoring, management, and treatment of respiratory disorders
5:00 PM- Welcome
5:15 PM - Speaking Program
5:45 PM - Q & A
6:00 PM - Pitch Presentations
6:50 PM - Presentation on Product Development Resources
7:15 PM- Networking & Poster Session
8:00PM - Program Close
Fireside Chat - Money Meets Medicine: Funding Point of Care Innovation
Pitch Presenters
- Alexander Colton - CEO, CosmosRx
- Bryan Nolan - Founder & CEO, myBiometry
- Hector Torres - CEO & Co-Founder, Hemorai
- Yashar Vahedein - Co-Founder & CEO, Coredio Corp.
- Richard Bruno, MD - Physician Executive & Strategic Advisor, Senior Advisor, ABIG Health
- Miranda Jamieson, MBA - Senior Director World Wide Marketing - VELYS Digital Surgery, Johnson & Johnson
- Stephanie Willard - Senior Director, Clinical Innovation, Wellinks
- Yvonne Hao - Chief Operating Officer & General Partner, Flagship Pioneering
What does it take to turn early-stage diagnostics into real-world impact? This fireside chat brings together investors, clinicians, and innovators leading the success of point-of-care technologies to share how capital flows into these (healthcare’s most urgent) solutions. From early-stage funding through to commercialization, speakers will share what makes a company investable, where the biggest opportunities lie, and how innovators can navigate the path from concept to adoption.Whether you're building, funding, or scaling the next generation of medical innovation, this conversation offers perspectives you won’t want to miss.
Research Symposium Presenters
- Dawn Thompson - Auracée: A Novel Point-of-Care Multimodal Therapeutic Device Integrating Photobiomodulation, Vibration, and Thermal Therapy for Post-Hysterectomy Vaginal Cuff Healing, Pelvic Floor Restoration, and Soft-Tissue Recovery
- Grace Callen - Investigating probiotic treatment to dampen oral inflammation within tissue model
- Hang Bui - CareStep: A Point-of-Care Social Care Navigation Tool to Improve Food Referral Follow-Through for Medicaid Patients with Chronic Disease in Community Health Centers (CHCs)
- Borna Doroudi - A Virtual-First, Technology-Enabled Cardiology Clinic Expanding Timely Access to Preventive and Longitudinal Cardiac Care
- Steve Waddell - Multi-Night Passive Radar for Decentralized Sleep Diagnosis in Older and Clinically Complex Adults: A Point-of-Care Pathway from Behavioral Signal to Clinical Action
- Ke Zhang - Developing a decentralized point-of-care diagnostic solution for rapid and accurate identification of allergic IgE triggering allergic asthma
- Md Abdullah al Rumon - NeoTex: A Soft, Unobtrusive, Wireless Wearable Platform for Continuous Infant Monitoring
Panel of Reviewers
- Gladys Nunez - Executive Director, Amgen Ventures
- Sandra Nagale, PhD - Director, AI and Digital Health Partnerships & Research, Boston Scientific
- Richard Bruno, MD - Physician Executive & Strategic Advisor, Senior Advisor, ABIG Health
- Peter Hu, MBA - Investment Professional, Morningside
- Richard Anders, JD - Founder and Executive Director, Mass Medical Angels
Where is it happening?
Mintz, 1 Financial Center, Boston, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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