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CLEVELAND CLINIC NASA Collaborates with NASA Collaborates with NASA Collaborates with N ASA'S GLENN RESEARCH Center in Cleveland and Cleveland Clinic Innovations (CCI) have entered into a joint collaboration that will bring NASA's renowned aeronautics and spaceflight engineering expertise to CCI's Global Healthcare Innovations Alliance. The entities will work together to identify, prioritize, develop and commercialize technologies in Glenn's portfolio that can be applied to health care. As a member of the Global Healthcare Innovations Alliance, Glenn's researchers, engineers and developers will have access to Cleveland Clinic Innovations' resources, which will help facilitate the discovery and development of patient- benefiting technologies. Glenn will also be a part of the Alliance's nationwide network that currently includes hospital systems, universities, institutions and industry partners that are all looking to share innovation resources and leverage CCI's commercializa- tion expertise. "This collaboration between some of the nation's most respected institutions will bring great depth and breadth to our innovation mission," says Gary Fingerhut, Executive Director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations. "We believe that the collaboration between NASA Glenn's engineers and our caregivers will bring about promising ideas and technologies that can propel us into the new era of health care." The collaboration stems from Glenn's desire to develop a medical technology portfolio based on research from its longstanding aerospace missions. While NASA has a long history of pushing its industrial innovations to the commercial market, the organiza- tion has typically had limited resources to pursue healthcare sector opportunities. "NASA Glenn's research extends well beyond our aeronautics and spaceflight missions to the field of human health," says Glenn's Director, James Free. "By providing a pathway that will benefit the greater medical community, the Cleveland Clinic and the Alliance have opened a door to decades of NASA technological expertise that keeps humans safe on Earth and in space." ■