2026 Biomedical Innovation Scholarship award winner: Carly Rogalla

From Clinical Need to Proof of Concept: Ontogen Intern Takes on a Trauma-Care Challenge

During the summer of 2026, Ontogen R&D Engineering Intern Meryl McKenna worked alongside Ontogen’s engineering team and a clinical collaborator to explore this challenging unmet need. The goal was to determine whether a new medical-device concept could offer clinicians another option for temporarily managing bleeding within complex penetrating wounds.

Ontogen Medtech Achieves ISO 13485 Certification, Strengthening Contract Manufacturing Capabilities

Ontogen Medtech, a leading provider of design and manufacturing services for the medical device industry, is proud to announce that it has achieved ISO 13485:2016 certification, the internationally recognized standard for quality management systems in medical device manufacturing.

2025 Biomedical Innovation Scholarship award winner: Ruby Swafford

Ontogen + Lurie Children’s Advances Sterile Fluid Delivery Innovation with Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration

Medical innovation thrives on collaboration, and a recent partnership between Ontogen Medtech and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago exemplifies this. Working with Lurie Children’s Innovate2Impact (I2I) team, surgeon innovator Dr. Seth Goldstein, Dr. Justin Ryder, and a multidisciplinary group of healthcare professionals, the team is developing a new device to improve sterile fluid delivery in operating rooms.

5 Traits of a Startup-Friendly Contract Manufacturer

For early-stage medical device companies, selecting the right contract manufacturing (CM) partner is one of the most critical decisions in the path from prototype to commercialization. Yet, the needs of startups often differ substantially from those of established OEMs