The MESH Incubator (est. 2016) is an in-house innovation and entrepreneurship center at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School. The first incubator of its kind integrated into a hospital system, and with a physical location on the ground, MESH has actively created and supported over 1000 clinicians and researchers since 2016 through projects, patents, company-formation, innovation education, and much more.
Our program alumni includes clinicians, researchers, engineers, industry, and students in Boston and beyond. Over 200 investigators are currently enrolled in our novel MESH Core Innovation Bootcamp, the first hospital-system wide formal training curriculum in health innovation. 900+ innovators are currently registered on our novel Innovation MESH Network, a platform built with Mass General Brigham Innovation. We have incubated, from scratch, 10 companies with clinician founders and teams from MIT, Harvard, and industry since 2016. We have produced ~10 published or pending patents on medical devices, and published over 15 papers since we launched our Innovation in Operations (MESH IO) Research Group in August 2020.
You can learn more about our various programs below.
"MESH is enablinginnovatorsto create the tools they imagine and to improve patient care.“
-James Brink, MDRadiologist-in-Chief,Mass General Brigham Enterprise Radiology
Real Impact
Harnessing ground-level clinical needs into patentable and licensable intellectual property, new companies, publications, and better patient care.
2300+
Participants
22x
Follow-on fundingfor our startups
55+
Peer-reviewed publications
10+
Published or pending patents
A systems-integrated innovation center at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School
Structured divisions that scale innovation across a world-class health system and medical school
From our Core Healthcare Innovation Bootcmap to our startup-forming biodesign program, MESH spans the gamut of systems-innovation.
MESH DivisionsAbout us