2024 AUG 4 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at VerticalNews
Health -- Winston-Salem, North Carolina - The RegenMed Development Organization
(ReMDO) invites researchers, industry and academia to the inaugural Piedmont Triad
Regenerative Medicine Engine Ecosystem Summit (The Summit) on Monday, August
12th in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Registration is open to new and current
partners, with required onboarding for prospective organizations to be completed by
August 12. The summit will consist of speaker sessions, discussion panels, breakouts,
and networking events with complete details available at
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As a part of the summit, the NSF Innovations Engine: Piedmont Triad RegenMed
Engine (PTRME) will be announcing exceptional funding opportunities for new
ecosystem partner companies and teams, intended to further advance the regional
footprint in regenerative medicine. The Summit will serve as a networking event for
partners to further connect and team if needed. Workforce development stakeholders
within our engine will be in attendance as well as representatives from the National
Science Foundation (NSF) and other government agencies will also be present.
Agendas will be provided for registrants prior to the conference.
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is the recipient of an
inaugural NSF Engines Program award. The NSF-PTRME is an initiative to build a
regional innovation ecosystem to accelerate the translation of regenerative medicine
use-inspired research to commercialization, thus stimulating economic growth,
workforce development, and job creation. The PTRME partnership consists of members
of the RegenMed Hub, ReMDO, members of the Regenerative Manufacturing
Innovation Consortium (RegMIC), and includes more than 80 regional stakeholders in
academia, industry, government, and not-for profit entities. The PTRME core team
consists of industry organizations Axiom Space and ReMDO paired with academic
institutions such as North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC
A&T), Winston Salem State University (WSSU), and Forsyth Technical Community
College, supported by multiple businesses, governmental entities, and not-for-profit
agencies.
Background on ReMDO ReMDO is a 501©3 non-profit organization with the mission to
accelerate discovery and translation of regenerative medicine therapies. It is part of a
thriving regenerative medicine landscape across the Piedmont region of North
Carolina called the Regenerative Medicine Hub (RegenMed Hub) that is joining forces
with the PTRME to develop a comprehensive ecosystem to accelerate the
manufacturing and commercialization of regenerative medicine products within our
region. This ecosystem is intended as a one stop shop for regenerative medicine
where companies have access to specialized technologies and expertise, a trained
workforce, and capital investment opportunities through a vast network of stakeholders
in the regenerative medicine space. For information about ReMDO, contact Joshua
Hunsberger at [Link]@[Link].
Right now they’re basically trying to pull everyone in regenerative medicine into the same room
for this big summit in North Carolina — researchers, companies, schools, all of them — so
people can actually meet, talk, and figure out what they can build together. The PTRME group is
also dropping new funding chances, so the summit is kind of the moment where teams can
connect and maybe start something bigger. What they want in the long run is to build an
ecosystem where companies don’t have to run around looking for help, because everything they
need — tech, support, trained people — is already there. But it’s not all easy: they still have to
make sure new partners actually get set up right, the event has to be useful and not just a
bunch of speeches, and they need steady funding and teamwork if they want all these ideas to
turn into real stuff.
summarize:The article announces a new summit designed to bring together organizations
working in regenerative medicine and strengthen a regional ecosystem that supports
collaboration, funding, and commercial progress.