Affinity groups
Organized to unlock potential
Healthcare innovation is fiendishly complex. The path from idea to laboratory to marketplace and patient care is fraught with obstacles. Reliably achieving product-market fit in the health sector—matching problems to solutions and focusing their development to maximize their potential for impact—remains a critical challenge.
To tackle this problem, our co-creation methodology systematically coalesces diverse stakeholders in Affinity Groups to create new healthcare technologies and innovation-based enterprises.
Affinity groups leverage medical and technology strengths across healthcare settings to improve outcomes, increase quality, and reduce cost.
Each Affinity Group comprises projects, which are led by Fellows who attract and coordinate diverse collaborators.

Wellness Home
Our homes are the central scenes in the epic dramas of our lives. Can they also play an active role? Imagine homes that know—even anticipate—when you need special care. Imagine real estate developers collaborating with doctors and technologists to make homes that prevent injury, manage health, and enable dignified aging.
2020 Projects
PhenoWell
Detection, prediction and interventions of early depression through AI analysis of smartphones usage signatures.
Wellness Home Integrator
Prototype of the Wellness Home as a commercial product
Quarantine Room
Negative pressure technology to isolate communicable diseases in the home
SounDx
Detection and prediction of early respiratory infection through AI analysis of cough signatures.
S-There
Smart toilet technology to passively monitor health and detect changes that might signal prediabetes, UTI, dehydration, and other conditions
Smart Mirror
Computer vision-enabled mirror to monitor physical and mental health conditions
FiltrateFlow
Filtration system to reduce spread of communicable diseases
Sleeprhythm
Smart fibers in bed sheets applied to continuous monitoring of effective sleep hours

Augmented Care
Health and wellness is a community enterprise. They are managed not only in clinical settings—and not only by doctors. Can we enhance the roles of medical paraprofessionals with technology to improve outcomes and healthcare economics?
2020 Projects
Epithelial cells and virus entry
Triage tool for lung inflamation progonosis
Osseus Ai
Exoskeleton device for remote rehabilitation
Itineris AI
AI-based, smart interoperable assistant for intelligent patient engagement and contextual plan of care management
Telederm
AI computer vision application for dermatology care
NeuroStimuli
Brain Stimulation and measurement
Synaptik
Cognitive improvement through through brain stimulation
Pedelman
Microfluidic biopsy device that mimics human physiology in ex-vivo tissues
Pharmacogenomics
Pharmacogenomics Feature for Patient Compass
ApuDx
Device for sleep apnea management
WellWaze
Integrated breast health monitoring system, bringing together a breast thermal sensor device and a powerful app

Women’s Health
About half the world’s population is not as well understood by science or served by medicine as it should be. It’s time to develop techniques and technologies that make life for women healthier and safer.
2020 Projects
BloomerTech
Smart fibers applied to women’s clothing for heart disease monitoring

Kidney
Deadly chronic kidney diseases affect about 15% of adults in the US—and as many as 9 in 10 don’t even know it until serious damage is already done. Chronic kidney disease also disproportionately affects already vulnerable communities.
2020 Projects
LiveXtent
New perfusion technology to extend donor organ life
Smart Membrane
Smart dialysis membrane to filter toxic particles from the bloodstream, with a personalized profile rather than one-size fits all

Project AiM
2020 Projects
Inretio
AI system and hardware to democratize access to AI technologies for solo medical, small practice practitioners, who make 42% of doctors in the United States
Videre AI
Platform solution to minimize healthcare waste
Project AiM: Miami Datasets
Collaborative project between the GCL, MIT IMES, MIT J-Clinic / Protoventures and Data.World to generate Miami-based datasets for AI innovation in health

Genomix305
2020 Projects
Cipherome
Pharmacogenomics platform to predict adverse drug effects based on genetic profile

BrainX
2020 Projects
FlowBio
Precision Medicine microfluidic device that mimics the blood brain barrier as a versatile platform for disease and drug screenings

Infectio
Infectious diseases are the number one killer in the United States. No silver bullet can provide the necessary defense, but unorthodox collaboration and multidisciplinary innovation can help us respond more quickly and effectively.
2020 Projects
Thelial
Lung inflammation (COVID-19 related) prediction through epithelial cells analysis
Dessidium Biosciences
Low cost screening to predict resistance to HIV treatment prior to treatment initiation
Pandemic Response
Integrative platform for tracking, testing, tele-triaging, tele-care, home care & smart referral