Biomedical Engineering bridges research, industry, and the clinic.
Beyond research, an important mission in our department is innovation for better health outcomes.
Translational Training Programs
MedTech Talent Accelerator 
The MedTech Talent Accelerator is a collaborative NSERC-CREATE program between McGill's Department of Biomedical Engineering and Toronto Metropolitain University (Ryerson).
This program provides graduate students in the penultimate year of their degree with in-depth training for careers in the medical technology industry, and placement in an industry internship (4 months for Master's, 8 months for PhD).
Visit the MedTech Talent Accelerator website to learn more and apply.
Contact the translation.bme [at] mcgill.ca (subject: MedTech%20Talent%20Accelerator) (McGill Program Manager) with specific questions.
Translational Courses
BMDE 653 Patents in Biomedical Engineering
Instructor: Pierre T. Nguyen
Patent Agent , Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
Affiliate Member, Department of Biomedical Engineering
BMDE 654 Biomedical Regulatory Affairs - Medical Devices
Instructor: Danny Kroo
Consultant , Medical Device Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs (QA/RA)
Affiliate Member, Department of Biomedical Engineering
BMDE 655 Biomedical Clinical Trials - Medical Devices
Instructor: Ahmad Haidar
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
BMDE 656 Medical Device Development Process
Instructors: Boby Cheuk Yan Chu , Teresa Ann Mary Mihalik
Resonetics
Selected Industry Partnerships
- Eli Lilly (Ahmad Haidar)
- GlaxoSmithKline (David Juncker)
- Sensoreal (David Juncker)
- Amazon (Danilo Bzdok)
- PeriGen, Inc. (Robert E Kearney)
Startups & Spin-offs from BME Labs
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True Positive Medical Devices
, acquired by QYNAPSE Inc. (Louis Collins)
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Saccade Analytics
, merged into Neuroflex (Henrietta L Galiana)
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Proheme Biotechnology (Thomas Ming Swi Chang)
Clinical Partnerships
- Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Artificial Pancreas for Type-1 Diabetes (Ahmad Haidar)
- Montreal Children's Hospital, Mechanics of the Outer and Middle Ear in Newborns and Infants (W Robert J Funnell)
- Montreal Children's Hospital, Predicting Extubation Readiness in Extremely Preterm Neonates (Robert E Kearney)
- Montreal Children's Hospital, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, ‘More Hugs, No more Wires, Smart Pajamas’ (Robert E Kearney)
- The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute – Hospital), MRI-based Neuroimaging and Diagnostics (Louis Collins, Christine Tardif, David Rudko)
- Shriners Hospital for Children, Bone Tissue Engineering (Maryam Tabrizian)
- Artificial Cells and Organs Research Centre (Thomas Chang, Director)
Contact
To collaborate with McGill BME, or for any inquiries, please contact info.bme [at] mcgill.ca