When: Tuesday January 29, 2013-Tuesday March 26, 2013 (This course will run Tuesday evenings of each week for 8 weeks – There will not be a class held on March 12.)

Where:Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center, 600 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor, Wannalancit Mills-Business Ctr, Lowell, MA 01854

Course Purpose: The purpose of this course is to provide aspiring entrepreneurs the necessary toolbox to bring their medical device to market

Course Subjects: Needs finding, disease state fundamentals, concept generation, intellectual property basics, regulatory affairs basics, reimbursement basics, business models, prototyping, animal trials, final concept selection, and fundraising

Course Instructors:

• Dr. Nathanial Hafer, UMass Medical School
• Dr. Stephen Johnston, UMass Lowell
• Dr. Scott Latham, UMass Lowell
• Dr. Christopher Macomber, UMass Memorial Medical School
• Dr. Stephen McCarthy, UMass Lowell
• Dr. Sheila Noone, Darthmouth College
• Dr. Satinder Rawat, UMass Medical School
• Dr. Steven Tello, UMass Lowell
• Kerry Lee Andken, UMass Lowell
• Timothy Looney, Northeast Biomedical
• Jill Murthi, UMass Lowell
• Eric Weber, Apneuvent

Textbook (included): Biodesign, The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies, by Zenos, Makower & Yock

Course Cost: $450.00 Class registration Fee – Early Registration closes for this course on 01/15/2013. (Registration fee will be $550.00 after 01/15/2013)

Registration: www.uml.edu/M2D2(navigate to our events webpage)

Please be sure to visit our M2D2 website (www.uml.edu/M2D2)for M2D2 information and updates and future upcoming M2D2 events. We would like to thank Nutter, McClennen and Fish LLP, our Platinum Sponsor for their support of M2D2!