ED24HDQ0G0402
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Purpose:
The CareScan Mobile Screening Center of Excellence project, led by the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), will bring effective technologies to wide markets while also improving health.
CareScan pioneers a first-of-its-kind community-driven mobile cancer screening fleet to deliver care directly to 107,585 residents in Wisconsin's distressed communities.
Through a virtual toolkit, CareScan also guides protocol development and provides unique insights for clinical pathway deployment.
This project will integrate advanced screening with disparate healthcare networks, improve health data quality, connect companies with a comprehensive product evaluation toolkit, and define a new healthcare segment which can employ 15,000 new workers nationally.
CareScan is an essential catalyst for the future of personalized medicine - streamlining robust, efficient validation and deployment of new screening and therapies across Wisconsin and the nation.
Activities to be performed:
Build a trusted community-based screening network.
Pilot CareScan as a scalable mobile screening model for widespread and efficient imaging solutions.
Pilot a clean pathway to product realization for innovators through a study.
Build a screening Center of Excellence model with shareable best practices.
Expected outcomes:
Establish community advisory board and community-based partners.
Launch Telehealth NexusMD MIA platform to expanded and customized teleradiologists.
Launch CareCompanion apps.
Deploy CareScan fleet of vans to community.
Design marketing and outreach strategies to register 30,000 participants in CareCompanion apps.
Build a screening Center of Excellence and deploy marketing strategy.
Intended beneficiaries:
Wisconsin's communities; established and start-up product development companies; and communities nationally and globally.
Subrecipient activities:
University of Wisconsin-Madison: The Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin will support development and implementation of the CareScan mobile imaging platform.
Their involvement will include scientific technical project leaders and applications support teams utilizing expertise in imaging to advise on the deployment, protocol configuration, and integration of CareScan imaging modalities and associated telehealth solutions.
Radiologist collaborators will consult on protocol refinements to ensure optimal and efficient diagnostic performance.
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE): Working with app developers and marketing experts, MSOE faculty and students will be critical to developing two apps with personalized video messages, conversational AI, and a novel chat interface that translates medical results into plain language to transparently augment community member connections with human care coordinators.
The CareScan Mobile Screening Center of Excellence project, led by the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), will bring effective technologies to wide markets while also improving health.
CareScan pioneers a first-of-its-kind community-driven mobile cancer screening fleet to deliver care directly to 107,585 residents in Wisconsin's distressed communities.
Through a virtual toolkit, CareScan also guides protocol development and provides unique insights for clinical pathway deployment.
This project will integrate advanced screening with disparate healthcare networks, improve health data quality, connect companies with a comprehensive product evaluation toolkit, and define a new healthcare segment which can employ 15,000 new workers nationally.
CareScan is an essential catalyst for the future of personalized medicine - streamlining robust, efficient validation and deployment of new screening and therapies across Wisconsin and the nation.
Activities to be performed:
Build a trusted community-based screening network.
Pilot CareScan as a scalable mobile screening model for widespread and efficient imaging solutions.
Pilot a clean pathway to product realization for innovators through a study.
Build a screening Center of Excellence model with shareable best practices.
Expected outcomes:
Establish community advisory board and community-based partners.
Launch Telehealth NexusMD MIA platform to expanded and customized teleradiologists.
Launch CareCompanion apps.
Deploy CareScan fleet of vans to community.
Design marketing and outreach strategies to register 30,000 participants in CareCompanion apps.
Build a screening Center of Excellence and deploy marketing strategy.
Intended beneficiaries:
Wisconsin's communities; established and start-up product development companies; and communities nationally and globally.
Subrecipient activities:
University of Wisconsin-Madison: The Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin will support development and implementation of the CareScan mobile imaging platform.
Their involvement will include scientific technical project leaders and applications support teams utilizing expertise in imaging to advise on the deployment, protocol configuration, and integration of CareScan imaging modalities and associated telehealth solutions.
Radiologist collaborators will consult on protocol refinements to ensure optimal and efficient diagnostic performance.
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE): Working with app developers and marketing experts, MSOE faculty and students will be critical to developing two apps with personalized video messages, conversational AI, and a novel chat interface that translates medical results into plain language to transparently augment community member connections with human care coordinators.
Awardee
Funding Goals
NON-CONSTRUCTION - FY23 REGIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION HUB PROGRAM PHASE 2
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
53226-3548
United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
The Medical College Of Wisconsin was awarded
Mobile Cancer Screening Center of Excellence Project Wisconsin Communities
Project Grant ED24HDQ0G0402
worth $9,166,267
from Economic Development Administration in October 2024 with work to be completed primarily in Milwaukee Wisconsin United States.
The grant
has a duration of 5 years and
was awarded through assistance program 11.039 Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs.
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity FY 2023 Regional Technology and Innovation Hub Program Phase 2 Notice of Funding Opportunity.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 8/29/25
Period of Performance
10/1/24
Start Date
9/30/29
End Date
Funding Split
$9.2M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$9.2M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
ED24HDQ0G0402
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
None
Awardee Classifications
Private Institution Of Higher Education
Awarding Office
1331K5 DEPT OF COMMERCE EDA
Funding Office
1331K5 DEPT OF COMMERCE EDA
Awardee UEI
E8VWJXMMUQ67
Awardee CAGE
4B829
Performance District
WI-04
Senators
Tammy Baldwin
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
Modified: 8/29/25