Eight years ago, a team of students in the Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development program tried to address a pressing need in sports medicine: how to treat millions of patients with chronic soft tissue injuries that would not respond to physical therapy.
Their solution was a microinvasive surgical tool called the Ocelot, developed during the one-year master’s program known as MBID in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. By the end of this year, the Ocelot could be in the hands of physicians treating patients with chronic tendon pain.
