About Our Team

The UMass MedTech Team is a student-led medical device design team focused on developing innovative medical devices that address critical gaps in the healthcare space. As the only design team on campus dedicated towards biomedical engineers, we are focused on providing our students with hands-on engineering, business, and leadership skills, equipping them with the necessary skills to succeed in the biomedical industry. Funding will directly support our development process, including prototyping, testing, covering competition and conference fees, and other expenses, allowing us to showcase our work on national platforms. With your support, we can continue to empower the next generation of engineers and leaders that will go on to advance patient care and transform lives.  

In our most recent project, KneeVive, the team developed a device to treat osteoarthritis of the knee by applying a method known as traction therapy. The team then presented this work at a national undergraduate research conference last summer.

Currently the team is engaged in three different exciting projects. Firstly, we are continuing our KneeVive project by developing a more refined prototype, as well as applying for a patent. We are also aiming to redesign the speculum to provide a more comfortable patient experience, and lastly, we have started a project to redesign a bioprinter for more efficient bioprinting.