Sony Salzman

At MedTechBoston, we are sharing stories about cutting-edge medical innovation. As Managing Editor, I help coordinate our coverage of hackathons and company profiles. I also create content, update our social media and scout stories. I'm part of an ambitious group of people hoping to inspire a tech revolution in medical care.

New Video Released! MedTech Boston Google Glass Challenge Pitch-Off Presentations »

15 May, 2014

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See the Finalists Pitch Their Ideas in the "Final Smackdown" Two days ago we released the video of the Keynotes and Google Glass demos from our "Final Smackdown". Today we release the Smackdown itself! (To go straight to the video, scroll down below.) Over the course of six weeks, our expert panel of judges evaluated over fifty…

M2D2 announces the New Venture Competition awards, hands out $50k in seed funding »

9 Apr, 2014

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For the third year running, the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) handed out seed funding to the winners of its New Venture Competition. This year, $50,000 in awards were granted by the M2D2, and its partners Smith & Nephew and Nutter. The tension was palpable during the awards ceremony - none of the 15…

XX in Health: Powerful women in life science discuss entrepreneurship, risk-taking and fostering innovation »

6 Apr, 2014

MedTech Features

Raising capital for a start-up venture, mitigating risk in a high-risky industry, and fostering innovation within a highly-regulated environment: these were just a few of the topics on the table at the April 2 XX in Health “Salon Series,” hosted by Ova Science.

Live from the Boston Children’s Hospital Innovator’s Forum: One hour of demos, ideas and opportunity »

4 Apr, 2014

MedTech Features

During Friday’s lunch hour, innovators swarmed the Ender’s Building of Boston Children’s Hospital, offering demonstrations of medical devices, data solutions and wearable technologies.

M2D2 Finalists: Meet Jeffrey Yeung, Hansen Yuan and Satyajit Marawar, founders of Aleeva Medical »

20 Mar, 2014

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The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) is in the midst of its 2014 New Venture Competition. After weeks of pitches, fifteen finalists have been announced. These finalists have business ventures that M2D2 has deemed "disruptive." With these fifteen blogs posts, MedTech Boston gives readers a glimpse of the innovators that made it this far in…