# Technology Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · 2024 · $769,338

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract – Technology Core
The goal of the Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies (CAPCaT) in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep
Disorders (HLBS) is to develop and optimize novel point of care technologies (POC) and home-based
technologies to improve the diagnosis and treatment of HLBS disorders, especially those targeted for low
resource settings. HLBS disorders collectively represent the single greatest source of morbidity and mortality in
the US, and they disproportionately affect minoritized and underserved populations. New POC and home-based
technologies are critical enablers of the ongoing transformation of healthcare, which is moving out from
specialized inpatient testing facilities into the clinic and the home. CAPCaT was originally based on the highly
successful medical product incubator, the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2), at the
University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell and UMass Chan campuses. UMass Lowell has strengths in
engineering and business, while the Worcester campus houses the UMass Chan Medical School, the first and
only public academic health system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Over the past five years, CAPCaT
has conducted four national calls for applications and from 441 applicants has selected, awarded, monitored,
and comprehensively supported 23 HLBS POC innovations. CAPCaT awardees have raised over $43M in
funding, refined/developed new products, generated 9 new intellectual properties, and brought new technologies
to market. In this competitive renewal, the Technology Core of CAPCaT will continue to issue broad-reaching
calls for applications and will select and support new meritorious projects focusing on later-stage POC and home-
based technologies from across the HLBS space. Selection will be based on performance and potential for
clinical impact, likelihood of implementation and addressing an HLBS health disparity. CAPCaT’s Technology
Core will support selected projects utilizing a strong collection of existing resources at UMass Lowell and UMass
Chan to help further develop and refine later-stage prototypes to the point of validation and user-testing.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10908702
- **Project number:** 5U54HL143541-07
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Nathaniel Scott Hafer
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $769,338
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-08-22 → 2028-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10908702

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10908702, Technology Core (5U54HL143541-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10908702. Licensed CC0.

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