About COSMIIC

Mission

COSMIIC is built on the expectation that significant medical advances will occur through the use of active implantable devices. At COSMIIC, our goal is to eliminate or reduce barriers that accompany human study of these types of devices. We hope that helping the world use implantable devices will improve the health and quality of life of everyone on this planet. We sincerely hope our community offers the resources you need to take your innovative concepts for new treatments and turn them into practical systems and studies.

History

Our research team in Cleveland has been developing implantable devices since the 1960's. Indeed, the first spinal cord stimulator was implanted in Cleveland in 1967. We implanted our first multi-channel device for spinal cord injury function in 1986. In 1996, we implanted the first device that combined stimulation with implanted joint angle sensing and, in 2003, we implanted the first myoelectrically-controlled device. It was our ongoing experience in designing, fabricating, implanting, implementing, and evaluating these devices in humans that led us to develop a modular implant concept, which we called the Networked Neuroprosthesis (NNP). The NNP system, which was first implanted in humans in 2016, forms the platform for the COSMIIC System.

Grant Support

COSMIIC at CWRU and The MetroHealth System (Cleveland, OH) as well as community members have been supported by various grants and funding sources, enabling our research and development efforts in the field of implantable devices. These supports have been crucial in advancing our capacity to support innovation in neuromodulation.