About 5 years ago, Brian Anthony and colleagues proposed a new research center as part of MIT’s ongoing Singapore Alliance. Together with MIT’s Charles Sodini and Joel Voldman, Anthony worked to better connect industry and academia to create new electronic medical devices. “We wanted to work in the areas of product design, manufacturing and operations with an eye toward improving the way medical electronic devices are manufactured and brought to market,” Anthony explains. Three years ago, these founding ideas led to the creation of the Medical Electronic Device Realization Center (MEDRC) at MIT.