AdventHealth Nicholson Center opens Prototype Lab to help physician inventors

Amy Keller | 3/25/2020

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Each year, doctors from around the world come to AdventHealth Nicholson Center in Celebration to practice surgical techniques using robots and other high-tech devices. In the process, some develop ideas for inventions of their own. Sensing an opportunity, Nicholson has opened a prototype lab that helps physician inventors turn concepts into actual medical devices and surgical tools.

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