First Look: 14 rapid fire presentations

The 2024 World Medical Innovation Forum kicked off with First Look presentations, featuring 15 Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham innovators sharing cutting-edge breakthroughs highlighting the commercial potential of their innovations.

Covering a range of treatments, technologies, devices, and diagnostics, the presentations included therapies and solutions in oncology, inflammation and inflammatory diseases, neuroscience, AI and other specialties.

Congratulations to Mass General Brigham physicians John Hanna MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Leigh Hochberg MD, PhD, Director of Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery; Senior Lecturer on Neurology, Harvard Medical School, the winners of the 2024 First Look Award!

Presentation highlights include:

• A drug patch for autoimmune skin disease
• A robotic bronchoscope for hard-to-reach lung cancerFirst-in-class drug treatments for multiple myeloma
• An implantable brain-computer interface for neurological disruptions
• Virtual reality for mental health resilience training
• Treatments for brain lipid abnormalities
• An app integrating rheumatology patient outcomes into care
• AI streamlining cardiovascular clinical trials
• Multimodal imaging for early disease detection
• A medical education platform blending virtual and real experiences
• Saliva-based diagnosis for newborn sepsis
• AI in precision oncology via computational pathology
• AI managing blood pressure during Cesarean delivery
• New cell therapy for regenerative medicine

Watch all 2024 First Look Sessions.