OPTIMISE WHEEL OF FORTUNE in 2017 – An illustration of the OPTIMISE hub and its industrial clients. The radial lines represent past and present sponsored research, service agreements, internships, partnerships, and/or end-user relationships. The circumferential line represents collaborations, either next to or farther along the circumference, among clients that have been promoted by OPTIMISE. Not shown but important to the CWRU physics interdisciplinary approach to commercialization is a consulting network of physics, radiology, biomedical engineering, chemistry, and mathematics departments. Also not shown but equally important are institutions recently interacting with OPTIMISE for its expertise, including the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and The Ohio State University, and a new start-up, Crystics LLC, for the development of crystalline diagnostics through new medical and industrial monitors.

OPTIMISE is instrumental

OPTIMISE has been instrumental in the emergence of five new Ohio imaging companies, and has gained recognition for educating scores of students who have gone on to leadership positions in the Ohio imaging companies. Crystics LLC, introduced above, is anticipated to follow suit.

OPTIMISE contributes

The group has played a central role in the writing of a major MRI textbook, and its 2014 2nd edition, as well as the formation and ongoing administration of a pioneering CWRU Entrepreneurial Master's Program. Former students have their names on hundreds of medical imaging patents. We respond to technology-pull by multiple companies in quickly opening up new markets with late-stage commercialization.