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Innovation Grand Rounds: Translating Research to the Bedside at Mass General Brigham

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  • Innovation Grand Rounds is a monthly live series with talks by innovators and executives from across the healthcare system
  • Matt Rosen, PhD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, recently spoke about his experiences with Hyperfine and other companies he has founded
  • Hyperfine introduced a portable MRI scanner, which was approved for patient use in 2020

On March 23, 2022, Matt Rosen, PhD, director of the Low-Field MRI and Hyperpolarized Media Laboratory in the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, gave an Innovation Grand Rounds on effectively translating research to the bedside at Mass General Brigham.

Dr. Rosen co-founded Hyperfine Research in 2014 to translate work done in his lab. After six years of development, the Hyperfine portable 64 mT MRI system was approved for patient use in February 2020. The company went public in 2021. In his Grand Rounds, Dr. Rosen spoke about his experiences both with Hyperfine and with other successful companies he has founded.

Figure 1

Massachusetts General Hospital is now using the Hyperfine portable MRI scanner in the clinic. Shown here are Matt Rosen and Mass General neurologist Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD, with the scanner. Photo courtesy of Matt Rosen, PhD.

Mass General Brigham Innovation Grand Rounds is a monthly live series from Mass General Brigham Innovation that features educational and experiential talks by innovators and executives from across the healthcare system. The catalogue of past Mass General Brigham Innovation Grand Rounds is viewable on the Innovation MESH Network, the official healthcare innovator development and learning platform of Mass General Brigham.

Watch the video of the talk here.

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