UMass Nursing Doctoral Student Karen Meade Secures Funding to Advance Device Toward Commercialization
The b3 Buddy is designed to improve urinary drainage securement in patients with urinary catheters.
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Karen Meade, doctoral nursing student and graduate researcher in the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, was recently awarded approximately $50,000 in funding through The Ohio State University’s Accelerator Awards program to help advance her nurse-led invention, the b3 Buddy, into the next phase of development and commercialization.