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- Simbex develops a single-user version of the Head Impact Telemetry System (HITS™) marketed by Riddell as
the Revolution IQ HITS™ Helmet. First units are delivered in December 2007.
- The United States Army contracts with Simbex to develop an in-helmet sensing system to measure blast effects
with an aim to improve combat helmet design and reduce traumatic brain injuries among soldiers.
- Simbex is awarded a two-year Phase II STTR to continue development a Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis.
Paolo Bonato, PhD of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston will collaborate on the project,
overseeing field trials of the product as a significant step towards commercial release.
- A two-year joint project of Simbex and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center developed instrumented ski helmets
that are being used to evaluate pediatric head injuries caused by winter sport accidents. Initial research
results were presented at the International Society for Skiing Safety meeting in Aviemore, Scotland, May, 2007.
- An NIH-funded research project developed a novel design for protective wrist guards for winter sports. Initial
results of on-snow testing were presented at the May meeting of the International Society for Skiing Safety.
- The NIH awards Simbex $3.6M for a 5 year, multi-center Bioengineering Research Partnership entitled "Biomechanical Basis
of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)." The Partnership includes Dartmouth Medical School Departments of Psychiatry and,
of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Dartmouth Athletics, Rhode Island Hospital Department of Orthopaedics, Brown University Department of
Athletics, Virginia Tech Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Athletics and Virginia College of
Osteopathic Medicine.
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- Simbex is awarded a Phase I STTR by the US Army to investigate
and enhance a Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis
with MIT's Biomechatronics Group, led
by Professor Hugh Herr, at the MIT
Media Lab.
- Simbex has partnered with Wayne State University researchers Cindy Bir, PhD and Marianne
Wilhelm, PhD on projected funded by NOCSAE to study head impacts in soccer and amateur boxing.
Prelimininary testing results are being presented at the World Congress of Biomechanics in
Munich Germany in August 2006.
- Simbex has partnered with Tom McAllister, PhD, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and
Dartmouth Medical School, and the Dartmouth Athletics department on a pilot study aimed at
correlating biomechanical and clinical measures of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) in athletes using HIT System. Forty
football and five ice hockey athletes were instrumented and monitored during the season.
Pre- and post season functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were done on football and
hockey players wearing instrumented helmets as well as non-contact sport athlete controls from
the Dartmouth cross-country team. Clinical neuropsychology tests including both computerized
ImPACT and pencil and paper tests. Expansion to hockey is important because it allows studies
of men and women — gender differences in MTBI have not been examined in depth.
Results will be used as pilot data for submissions to NIH for follow-on funding and project
expansion to include womens hockey and at multiple schools.
- The US Air Force awarded Simbex a Phase I SBIR to integrate Nano-Powered
Head Impact Technology (nHIT) for an
ultra-low power head impact monitor
for field applications in combat environments.
nHIT will be used to help understand
the effects of Improvised Explosive
Devices (IED) on head injuries in the
field.
- Number of impacts recorded by HIT System?
- NIH ActiveStep Phase II
- NOCSAE Boxing
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- Simbex HIT System™ and Head Impact Biomechanics collects over 250,000 impacts, from more than 280 athletes during actual games and practices at 9 schools in 2005.
- The HIT System™ technology finds acceptance as an essential tool for studying head impact biomechanics and head protection product development. HIT System™ will be used by researchers in football, boxing, equestrian activities and soccer.
- Simbex Performance and Rehab forms a joint-development project with the University of Illinois - Chicago. The goal of the partnership is to develop new technology to improve stability in the geriatric population.
- Richard M. Greenwald is named President of the International Society for Skiing Safety.
- Simbex HIT System™ is field-tested in a second sport — Ice Hockey.
- Riddell client list of SRS users expands to nine, including 5 NCAA football programs and 4 high school football programs.
- Simbex creates separate business units. Aaron Buck is promoted to Activity Manager - HIT System™ and Head Impact Biomechanics and Alec Jessiman is hired to Activity Manager - Performance and Rehabilitation Products.
- HIT System™ technology is commercialized by Riddell under the name Riddell Sideline Response System™ (SRS™) and introduced at the American Football Coaches Association annual trade show and meeting.
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- Simbex is awarded a US Patent for HIT System technology.
- Simbex begins the second stage of prosthesis development with a project to revolutionize socket fitting, called the SVGS II.
- Simbex is awarded several NIH awards for research and product development of innovative injury prevention devices for the sports and geriatric populations.
- Jeffrey J. Chu is promoted to Director of Engineering.
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- The Active Contact System™ retrofit SR-80 is introduced at the O&P annual convention in San Diego, CA.
- The Hit System has its on-field debut. Virginia Tech, a NCAA Division I school, in conjunction with Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, implements the HIT System for the entire season, in both practices and games. The team records over 3,000 impacts during actual play and practices.
- US Patent obtained for the Active Contact System™ technology entitled. “A Dynamic Variable Geometry Fitting System for Use with a Body Appliance.”
- IBEX™ is used in a study by world renowned researchers in Sydney, Australia to maintain strength and mobility in diabetic patients undergoing dialysis treatment.
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- The Active Contact System™ debuts at the Orthotics and Prosthetics (O&P) Industry national convention in Orlando, Florida, where Drs. Greenwald and Dean are featured speakers.
- In-Bed Exerciser, IBEX™ finishes its clinical trials are successfully concluded, additional research and development projects are launched.
- David W. Bertoni is added to the Simbex Board of Directors.
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- Further government research grants are awarded to Simbex for ongoing technology development in the areas of prosthetics, geriatric rehabilitation and injury prevention.
- Simbex refocuses the company on product development and chooses the IBEX™, Head Impact Technology and Smart Variable Geometry projects as the leading projects.
- Simbex debuts the In-Bed Exerciser or IBEX™ and is granted two patents for its technology.
- Simbex receives matching grant for additional R&D on the Active Contact System™.
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Dr. Greenwald and Dean's tech incubator Synergy Innovations establish joint partnership.
- Simbex is founded as a New Hampshire Limited Liability Company and establishes headquarters/laboratory in converted mill building in Lebanon, NH.
- Jeffery J. Chu joins Simbex as Senior Engineer.
- David W. Bertoni joins Simbex as Director of Strategic Marketing Development.
- Simbex establishes board of directors: Drs. Dean & Greenwald; Sonny Kreitman, PhD, former director, NIH SBIR Program (retired); and Brad Meiseles, executive VP of WinMill Software.
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- Robert C. Dean, Jr., ScD, believes a better fitting lower-limb prosthetic socket is possible.
- Dean & colleagues receive first research awards from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.
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