Johnson & Johnson MedTech has launched the Polyphonic™ AI Fund for Surgery QuickFire Challenge to accelerate the use of AI in surgery, offering grant funding up to $100,000, mentorship from experts across Johnson & Johnson, and computing tools and technologies to help advance their innovations, including access to: GPUs and related software for accelerated computing, cloud platform and application services, Machine Learning (ML) and AI modeling toolkits and other Software Development Kits (SDKs).
Innovators around the world are invited to submit ideas for AI technologies with the potential to enhance surgical care and improve patient outcomes across the following categories:
- Surgical decision support: Perioperative AI that augments delivery of care throughout the procedure, reduces cognitive load and has the potential to serve as a surgeon co-pilot.
- Data management & governance processes: Advancing data infrastructure, privacy & consent management, labeling frameworks, and regulatory research.
- Surgical efficiency: AI that boosts coordination across care teams, amplifies care team proficiency and improves patient management to enable seamless delivery of perioperative care.
Submissions should have a path to commercialization. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and awardees will be announced quarterly through the end of 2026. Contact jlabsapplication@its.jnj.com with any questions.