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President and CEO Tim Looney will be presenting two topics this year at MD&M West 2026 Speed Is a Design Decision: How Early Choices Determine Medical Device Time-to-MarketWhen: 02/04/2026, 11:15AM – 12:00PMWhere: 207A Scaling Up Your Device for a Market […]

Tim Looney will be speaking at Boston MEDevice. Strategies and Techniques to Translate from Medical Device Research into Product Development Wednesday, September 25 • l 0:00 AM -l 0:45 AM Start-Up Series Lunch & Learn -Perspectives on Al: Predictions of […]

Northeast Biomedical is partnering with Universal Robots Northeast Biomedical is partnering with Universal Robots to create automated assembly and test solutions for your Medical Device and Life Sciences manufacturing. Universal Robots is the world’s #1 collaborative robot brand, and NEB […]

The month of March is an important one for Northeast Biomedical, as we are excited to celebrate Women’s History Month. We appreciate and acknowledge all the amazing things the women of our company do for NEB and recognize we would […]

SimTec MD is committed to developing high-quality virtual reality (VR) scenarios to educate the next generation of medical professionals. VR allows for the creation of an effective and fun virtual environment that supplements a medical student’s real-life clinical experiences. We […]

Northeast Biomedical President, Tim Looney, talks about best practices & common pitfalls in med device design.

You are 12 weeks behind schedule and $2 million over budget, with no definitive solution in sight. Your development team has started to live in their cubicles, ingesting caffeine intravenously and neglecting any sort of personal hygiene. Some of them […]

As the engineering world constantly shifts to embrace new technologies; and as the needs for cutting edge solutions are sought – Northeast Biomedical is continuously on the lookout for the talent to meet those challenges. We are proud to introduce […]

Tyngsboro, Mass. — Northeast Biomedical and Coatings2Go entered agreements for a long-term strategic partnership on Nov 15. Northeast Biomedical (NEB) is a medical device product development, distribution, and manufacturing company that has an ISO 13485:2016 certificate for their quality management […]

Ten years ago, Tim Looney launched Northeast Biomedical out of the University of Massachusetts Lowell Medical Device Development Center (M2D2), ready to use his vast design and development experiences to consult for companies in need of that expertise. As NEB’s […]

Did you know that around 10% of the United States population will be taken to a catheterization lab for an angioplasty surgery, treatment of an arrhythmia or a heart valve replacement? In 2019, an estimated 1.1 million ablation procedures to […]

Did you know that around 10% of the United States population will be taken to a catheterization lab for an angioplasty surgery, treatment of an arrhythmia or a heart valve replacement? In 2019, an estimated 1.1 million ablation procedures to […]

Imagine this: You are working on a high-priority engineering project nearing a two-week deadline and you do not have the needed talent to get the project finished. Being down one engineer on a critical project can cause a late product […]

TYNGSBORO, MASS. — Northeast Biomedical’s (NEB) President, Tim Looney, is providing mentorship through the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps to Worcester Polytechnic Institute spin-out company Soma Device. The I-Corps program provides financial and mentoring support to student and/or faculty teams […]

LOWELL, MASS. – Northeast Biomedical became a sponsor of the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) on May 5. M2D2 assists biotech and medical-device entrepreneurs with all aspects of moving new products and technologies from concept to commercialization in order […]

In the last few posts, we have discussed both the Needs Assessment and the Inventor’s Assessment portions of pre-development planning. The third step in device development is defining the acceptance criteria. These criteria are the conditions that need to be […]

Prototype | prōdəˌtīp |NOUN a first, typical or preliminary model of a part or whole representation of a product from which other forms are developed. This word means different things to different people.  A prototype can be anything from a […]

In 2013, Northeast Biomedical, Inc. received a phone call from a Ph.D. student, Vanessa Doulames at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell Center for Neuroscience. Looking to create a device that would allow for measurable and accurate test results to be […]

The management team at your medical device company has just met and prioritized the projects for the current year. Your team is already understaffed and the deadlines are coming up quickly. At this point you have to ask yourself; do […]